Unfortunately simply using `appearance: textfield;`, or even `-webkit-appearance: textfield;`, doesn't actually hide the "spinner" in number-input elements in e.g. Google Chrome.
Hence we need to use a work-around with the `-webkit-inner-spin-button` rule, however in our CSS code we also have `-webkit-outer-spin-button` currently. According to both [the MDN compatibility data](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/::-webkit-outer-spin-button#browser_compatibility) and also manual testing in Google Chrome Beta 99, the `-webkit-outer-spin-button` rule is no longer necessary and we can thus clean-up the CSS a tiny bit.
This was added in PR 4516 specifically for Safari on iOS devices, but according to MDN it should no longer be necessary now; see https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/-webkit-overflow-scrolling#browser_compatibility
According to the MDN compatibility data, this CSS feature:
- Was never implemented anywhere *except* for Safari on iOS.
- Was never standardized and thus never existed in an *unprefixed* version.
- Has now been removed, starting with Safari version 13.
Given that [the FAQ](https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js/wiki/Frequently-Asked-Questions#faq-support) already lists Safari as "Mostly" supported, and that the default viewer is written primarily for Mozilla Firefox, it ought to be fine to remove these CSS rules now.
At this point in time, after recent rounds of clean-up, the `webkit`-prefixed Fullscreen API is the only remaining *browser-specific* compatibility hack in the `web/`-folder JavaScript code.
The standard, and thus unprefixed, Fullscreen API has been supported for *over three years* in both Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome. [According to MDN](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Fullscreen_API#browser_compatibility), the unprefixed Fullscreen API has been available since:
- Mozilla Firefox 64, released on 2018-12-11; see https://wiki.mozilla.org/Release_Management/Calendar#Past_branch_dates
- Google Chrome 71, released on 2018-12-04; see https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Chrome_version_history
Hence *only* Safari now requires using a prefixed Fullscreen API, and it's thus (significantly) lagging behind other browsers in this regard.
Considering that the default viewer is written *specifically* to be the UI for the Firefox PDF Viewer, and that we ask users to not just use it as-is[1], I think that we should only support the standard Fullscreen API now.
Furthermore, note also that the FAQ already lists Safari as "Mostly" supported; see https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js/wiki/Frequently-Asked-Questions#faq-support
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[1] Note e.g. http://mozilla.github.io/pdf.js/getting_started/#introduction
> The viewer is built on the display layer and is the UI for PDF viewer in Firefox and the other browser extensions within the project. It can be a good starting point for building your own viewer. *However, we do ask if you plan to embed the viewer in your own site, that it not just be an unmodified version. Please re-skin it or build upon it.*
Now that the there's ECMAScript support for properly private methods on `class`es, we can use that instead and thus remove all of the `@private` JSDocs comments.
In some cases, in the `PDFPageView` implementation, we're modifying the `sx`/`sy` properties when CSS-only zooming is being used.
Currently this requires that you remember to *manually* update the `scaled` property to prevent issues, which doesn't feel all that nice and also seems error-prone. By replacing the `scaled` property with a getter, this is now handled automatically instead.
The `CanvasRenderingContext2D.backingStorePixelRatio` property was never standardized, and only Safari set (its prefixed version of) it to anything other than `1`.
Note that e.g. MDN doesn't contain any information about this property, and one of the few sources of information (at this point) is the following post: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/24332639/why-context2d-backingstorepixelratio-deprecated
Hence we can simplify the `getOutputScale` helper function, by removing some dead code, and now it no longer requires any parameters when called.
Given that the `Navigator` interface has been available since "forever", please see https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Navigator#browser_compatibility, it's somewhat difficult to see why these checks are actually necessary since the viewer is only intended for usage in browsers.
Looking at the history of the code, this functionality was originally placed in the general `src/shared/compatibility.js` file which could thus run in e.g. worker-threads and Node.js environments (where the `Navigator` interface isn't available).
- it aims to fix#14562;
- 'X-\n' were not correctly positioned;
- when X is a diacritic (e.g. in "sä-\n", which is decomposed into "sa¨-\n") we must handle both things:
- diacritics on the one hand;
- "-\n" on the other hand.
This is essentially a *continuation* of PR 7926, where we added support for rejecting the current `PDFDocumentLoadingTask`-promise by throwing inside of the `onPassword`-callback.
Hence the naive way to address [bug 1754421](https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1754421) would be to simply throw in the `onPassword`-callback used in the default viewer. However it unfortunately turns out to not work, since the password input/validation is asynchronous, and we thus need another approach.
The simplest solution that I can come up with here, is thus to *extend* the `onPassword`-callback to also reject the current `PDFDocumentLoadingTask`-instance if an `Error` is explicitly passed as the input to the callback function. (This doesn't feel great, but I cannot see a better solution that isn't really complicated.)
Note that the *browser* findbar in Firefox uses "Title Case" for the labels, and it thus seem like a good idea to ensure that `PDFFindBar` in consistent with that.
Furthermore, the new label added in PR #13261 uses the "Title Case" format which means that currently the default viewer findbar looks inconsistent.
*Please note:* Based on the official Firefox localization docs, see https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/l10n/overview.html#string-updates, changing only the casing should *not* require updating the key:
> 1) If the change is minor, like fixing a spelling error or case, the developer should update the en-US translation without changing the l10n-id.
When the viewer becomes narrow, the `PDFFindBar` will (forcibly) wrap its elements to prevent it from extending to the full window width.
Currently, after PR 13261, this now leads to the `findResultsCount` span taking up vertical space *unconditionally* when the findbar is wrapped. To avoid a blank space being shown in this case, before searching has begun, place the `findResultsCount` span in a "message" rather than an "options" container.
- get original index in using a dichotomic seach instead of a linear one;
- normalize the text in using NFD;
- convert the query string into a RegExp;
- replace whitespaces in the query with \s+;
- handle hyphens at eol use to break a word;
- add some \s* around punctuation signs
With these changes, we'll now *always* replace all whitespaces with standard spaces (0x20). This behaviour is already, since many years, the default in both the viewer and the browser-tests.
This `disableCreateObjectURL` option was originally introduced all the way back in PR 4103 (eight years ago), in order to work-around `URL.createObjectURL()`-bugs specific to Internet Explorer.
In PR 8081 (five years ago) the `disableCreateObjectURL` option was extended to cover Google Chrome on iOS-devices as well, since that configuration apparently also suffered from `URL.createObjectURL()`-bugs.[1]
At this point in time, I thus think that it makes sense to re-evaluate if we should still keep the `disableCreateObjectURL` option.
- For Internet Explorer, support was explicitly removed in PDF.js version `2.7.570` which was released one year ago and all IE-specific compatibility code (and polyfills) have since been removed.
- For Google Chrome on iOS-devices, while we still "support" such configurations, it's *not* the focus of any development and platform-specific bugs are thus often closed as WONTFIX.
Note here that at this point in time, the `disableCreateObjectURL` option is *only* being used in the viewer and any `URL.createObjectURL()`-bugs browser/platform bugs will thus not affect the main PDF.js library. Furthermore, given where the `disableCreateObjectURL` option is being used in the viewer the basic functionality should also remain unaffected by these changes.[2]
Furthermore, it's also possible that the `URL.createObjectURL()`-bugs have been fixed in *browser* itself since PR 8081 was submitted.[3]
Obviously you could argue that this isn't a lot of code, w.r.t. number of lines, and you'd be technically correct. However, it does add additional complexity in a few different viewer components which thus add overhead when reading and working with this code.
Finally, assuming the `URL.createObjectURL()`-bugs are still present in Google Chrome on iOS-devices, I think that we should ask ourselves if it's reasonable for the PDF.js project (and its contributors) to keep attempting to support a configuration if the *browser* developers still haven't fixed these kind of bugs!?
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[1] According to https://groups.google.com/a/chromium.org/forum/#!topic/chromium-html5/RKQ0ZJIj7c4, which is linked in PR 8081, that bug was mentioned/reported as early as the 2014 (eight years ago).
[2] Viewer functionality such as e.g. downloading and printing may be affected.
[3] I don't have access to any iOS-devices to test with.
So that Firefox doesn't switch to pixel mode for compat with other
browsers.
This should fix https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js/issues/14476, in terms
of restoring the previous behavior.
We probably want to change the pixel-based scrolling code to not scroll
so much (the deltaMode stuff normalizes to +/-1 tick for each wheel
event, perhaps the pixel-based value should do the same).
- it aims to fix issue #14307;
- this event has been added recently in Firefox and we can now use it;
- fix few bugs in aform.js or in annotation_layer.js;
- add some integration tests to test keystroke events (see `AFSpecial_Keystroke`);
- make dispatchEvent in the quickjs sandbox async.
*Please note:* This is a tentative patch, since I don't know if this is deemed important enough to fix.
The new event could be seen as a *supplement* to the existing "documentinit" and "documentloaded" events, but for the case when a PDF document fails to load.
To make the "documenterror" event generally useful, it'll include both the localized error message as well as the original reason for the error (when that exists).
This helper function has never been used in e.g. the worker-thread, hence its placement in `src/shared/util.js` led to a *small* amount of unnecessary duplication.
After the previous patches this helper function is now *only* used in the viewer, hence it no longer seems necessary to expose it through the official API.
*Please note:* It seems somewhat unlikely that third-party users were relying *directly* on this helper function, which is why it's not being exported as part of the viewer components. (If necessary, we can always change this later on.)
As part of the changes/improvement in PR 14092, we're no longer using the `addLinkAttributes` directly in e.g. the AnnotationLayer-code.
Given that the helper function is now *only* used in the viewer, hence it no longer seems necessary to expose it through the official API.
*Please note:* It seems somewhat unlikely that third-party users were relying *directly* on the helper function, which is why it's not being exported as part of the viewer components. (If necessary, we can always change this later on.)
This structure contains *almost* exclusively references to DOM elements (and a couple of simple strings), rather than complete classes/functions. Hence the `eventBus`-option sticks out a fair bit, and I'd guess that it's *mostly* unused in e.g. third-party implementations.
Given that we, in multiple places, mention that the default viewer shouldn't be used as-is I really don't think that we need to keep this special `eventBus`-option around. Furthermore, nowadays it's also a lot easier to (safely) access the existing `EventBus`-instance in the viewer; see https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js/wiki/Third-party-viewer-usage#initialization-promise which shows how to listen for the default viewer being initialized (and its `eventBus` thus being available).
Besides converting `Catalog.getPageDict` to an `async` method, thus simplifying the code, this patch also allows us to pro-actively fix a existing issue.
Note how we're looking up References in such a way that `MissingDataException`s won't cause trouble, however it's *technically possible* that the entries (i.e. /Count, /Kids, and /Type) in a /Pages Dictionary could actually be indirect objects as well. In the existing code this could lead to *some*, or even all, pages failing to load/render as intended.
In practice that doesn't *appear* to happen in real-world PDF documents, but given all the weird things that PDF software do I'd prefer to fix this pro-actively (rather than waiting for a bug report).
With `Catalog.getPageDict` being `async` this is now really simple to address, however I didn't want to introduce a bunch more *unconditional* asynchronicity in this method if it could be avoided (since that could slow things down). Hence we'll *synchronously* lookup the *raw* data in a /Pages Dictionary, and only fallback to asynchronous data lookup when a Reference was encountered.
In addition to the above, this patch also makes the following notable changes:
- Let `Catalog.getPageDict` *consistently* reject with the actual error, regardless of what data we're fetching. Previously we'd "swallow" the actual errors except when looking up Dictionary entries, which is inconsistent and thus seem unfortunate. As can be seen from the updated unit-tests this change is API-observable, hence why the patch is tagged `[api-minor]`.
- Improve the consistency of the Dictionary /Type-checks in both the `Catalog.getPageDict` and `Catalog.getAllPageDicts` methods.
In `Catalog.getPageDict` there's a fallback code-path where we're *incorrectly* checking the /Page Dictionary for a /Contents-entry, which is wrong since a /Page Dictionary doesn't need to have a /Contents-entry in order to be valid.
For consistency the `Catalog.getAllPageDicts` method is also updated to handle errors in the /Type-lookup correctly.
- Reduce the `PagesCountLimit.PAUSE_EAGER_PAGE_INIT` viewer constant, to further improve loading/rendering performance of the *second* page during initialization of very long documents; PR 14359 follow-up.
*This addresses the following case missing from the previous patch:*
The viewer is loaded in an *active* window/tab, and enough time is allowed to pass in order to allow rendering to start. However, if the user then switches to another tab (or another program) *before* rendering has finished, the "load" event also needs to be unblocked.
