When fixing bug 1766987, I thought the field formatted value came from
the result of the format callback: I was wrong. The format callback is ran
but the value is unused (maybe it's useful to set some global vars... or
it's just a bug in Acrobat). Anyway the value to display is the one rendered
in the AP stream.
The field value setter has been simplified and that fixes issue #16409.
Given that the `css` property isn't constant, since it contains document/font ids, we cannot just check it directly. However, we can make use of regular expressions to ensure that the format is generally correct.
Despite this being a *major* version increase, it doesn't appear to require any updates in our test-suites.
Note in particular that the minimum supported browsers/environments were updated, however this isn't a problem given our recent support-changes in the PDF.js library.
Please find additional details at https://github.com/jasmine/jasmine/blob/main/release_notes/5.0.0.md
Originally the `PDFSidebarResizer` class was slightly larger, since the code used to contain e.g. feature testing for older (and no longer supported) browsers.
Given that there's some amount of overlap, when it comes to what DOM-elements and state that these classes need, it now seems reasonable to simply move the sidebar-resizing into the `PDFSidebar` class.
For the MOZCENTRAL build-target this patch reduces the size of the *built* `web/viewer.js` file by just over `1.1` kilobytes.
Similar to other toolbar/secondaryToolbar buttons that open toolbars or dialogs, it seems reasonable to use "aria-controls" for the editor-toolbar buttons as well.
On my computer, it takes few tenths of a second to load a local font.
Since a font can be used several times in a document, the cache will
improve performances.
- Replace FoxitSans with LiberationSans: LiberationSans is already there (for XFA) and we can use
it as a good replacement of FoxitSans.
- For now we just try to substitue standard fonts, the strategy is the following:
* we try to find a font locally from a hardcoded list;
* if it fails then we use Liberation as fallback (only for Helvetica for the moment);
* else we just fallback on the system serif/sansserif/monospace font.
This patch updates the minimum supported browsers as follows:
- Safari 15.4, which was released on 2022-03-15; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safari_version_history#Safari_15
Nowadays we usually we try, where feasible and possible, to support browsers that are about two years old. The reasons for limiting support to a *somewhat* more recent Safari version include:
- Throughout the history of the PDF.js project, Safari has always been the worst browser to attempt to support. Compared to other browsers there's a disproportionate number of bugs affecting Safari, especially on iOS, and in most cases those are browser-specific issues that we simply cannot address.[1]
- Safari has often been a lot slower, compared to other browsers, at implementing new web-platform features. Historically this has sometimes blocked usage of new features, for the benefit of the Firefox PDF Viewer, and it's very often meant having to include and maintain polyfills *only* for Safari.
- The current (minimum) supported Safari version lack enough functionality that polyfills placed in the `src/shared/compatibility.js` file are unfortunately not sufficient, but it also requires a bunch of special-cases in both the `gulpfile` and in the `web/`-code.
- Given that the *built-in* Firefox PDF Viewer is the primary development target for the PDF.js library, and the general development pace these days, we need to limit the maintenance "overhead" caused by other browsers.
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[1] In a few cases a work-around might be possible, however it'd negatively affect e.g. performance, readability, and/or maintainability of the code.
Originally we only used the `structuredClone` polyfill in the `LoopbackPort`-implementation, and that obviously isn't used anywhere within the various image decoders.
At this point in time we've started to use `structuredClone` a little bit more, hence it seems overall simpler to just bundle the polyfill even in the `legacy`-version of the IMAGE_DECODERS built-target.
For some time these checks have only targeted Node.js environments, since the features in question exist in all supported browsers (even when a `legacy`-build is used).
Now that we've updated the minimum supported Node.js version to 18, a number of polyfills are thus (finally) no longer necessary in that environment. Hence for certain *basic* functionality, such as e.g. text-extraction, it's now possible to use either a modern- or a `legacy`-build of the PDF.js library in Node.js environments.
*Please note:* For e.g. canvas-rendering in Node.js environments it's still necessary to use a `legacy`-build, since that functionality requires various polyfills.
This patch updates the minimum supported environments as follows:
- Node.js 18, which was released on 2022-04-19; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Node.js#Releases
Note also that Node.js 16 will soon reach EOL, and thus no longer receive any security updates.
