Project Mortar

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mortar_Project
谋智在考察把狗家的 PDFium 和 Pepper Flash 引入 Firefox 的可行性

来源 http://news.softpedia.com/news/chromification-continues-firefox-may-use-chrome-s-pdf-and-flash-plugins-508832.shtml

官方公告
https://groups.google.com/d/topic/mozilla.dev.planning/j834iDIG3yY/discussion

In order to enable stronger focus on advancing the Web and to reduce the complexity and long term maintenance cost of Firefox, and as part of our strategy to remove generic plug in support, we are launching Project Mortar.

Project Mortar seeks to reduce the time Mozilla spends on technologies that are required to provide a complete web browsing experience, but are not a core piece of the Web platform. We will be looking for opportunities to replace such technologies with other existing alternatives, including implementations by other browser vendors.

In order to keep costs low, we may use APIs internally that are not considered web standards. These APIs will not be exposed to the web. Solutions that both reduce our support cost, achieve the desired user experience, and make use of web standards will be preferred.

The project will start by investigating how Firefox handles PDF rendering followed by looking into lower cost approaches to providing Flash support as it's usage continues to decrease. Project Mortar is currently investigating using the minimum set of Pepper APIs needed to support the PDFium library and the Pepper Flash plugin. If successful, this work will allow us to completely remove NPAPI support from Firefox once NPAPI is disabled for general plugin use.

Keep an eye on https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mortar_Project for status and future updates for this project.

amad：pdf.js 不玩了?回到原帖

https://groups.google.com/d/msg/mozilla.dev.planning/j834iDIG3yY/6bhVAd0hEAAJ

This should have no real impact on PDF.js as a standalone project. If our efforts on using PDFium in Firefox gives us a bigger bang for the buck, Firefox will most likely switch to PDFium and no longer use PDF.js though. I don't see why PDF.js wouldn't continue to live on and continue to be used by others.

目前有些网站、项目有用到 PDF.js 在服务器端渲染 PDF
不过如果 Firefox 真的不需要 PDF.js 的话
我不觉得谋智会继续在这个项目上投入同等的资源

谋智前不久才开了个 IoT 的坑
还有吐芬奴，咳咳