At this point in time all browsers, and also Node.js, support standard `import`/`export` statements and we can now finally consider outputting modern JavaScript modules in the builds.[1]
In order for this to work we can *only* use proper `import`/`export` statements throughout the main code-base, and (as expected) our Node.js support made this much more complicated since both the official builds and the GitHub Actions-based tests must keep working.[2]
One remaining issue is that the `pdf.scripting.js` file cannot be built as a JavaScript module, since doing so breaks PDF scripting.
Note that my initial goal was to try and split these changes into a couple of commits, however that unfortunately didn't really work since it turned out to be difficult for smaller patches to work correctly and pass (all) tests that way.[3]
This is a classic case of every change requiring a couple of other changes, with each of those changes requiring further changes in turn and the size/scope quickly increasing as a result.
One possible "issue" with these changes is that we'll now only output JavaScript modules in the builds, which could perhaps be a problem with older tools. However it unfortunately seems far too complicated/time-consuming for us to attempt to support both the old and modern module formats, hence the alternative would be to do "nothing" here and just keep our "old" builds.[4]
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[1] The final blocker was module support in workers in Firefox, which was implemented in Firefox 114; please see https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Statements/import#browser_compatibility
[2] It's probably possible to further improve/simplify especially the Node.js-specific code, but it does appear to work as-is.
[3] Having partially "broken" patches, that fail tests, as part of the commit history is *really not* a good idea in general.
[4] Outputting JavaScript modules was first requested almost five years ago, see issue 10317, and nowadays there *should* be much better support for JavaScript modules in various tools.
The user should *always* provide a correct `GlobalWorkerOptions.workerSrc` value when using the PDF.js library in browser environments. Note that the fallback:
- Has been deprecated ever since PR 11418, first released in version `2.4.456` over three years ago.
- Was always a best-effort solution, with no guarantees that it'd actually work correctly.
- With upcoming changes, w.r.t. outputting JavaScript modules, it'd now be more diffiult to determine the correct value.
The minified default viewer has never been distributed in either official releases or through pdfjs-dist, which means that it's most likely unused, and it's has never been tested nor actively maintained.
Setting the alpha-value explicitly to `1` in `rgb` colors is unnecessary, since that's the default value, and this way we ever so slightly reduce the size of our CSS files.
Unfortunately I've not found a Stylelint rule to enforce this automatically, and the patch was generated using search and replace.
When an editing button is disabled, focused and the user press Enter (or space), an
editor is automatically added at the center of the current page.
Next creations can be done in using the same keys within the focused page.
When an element has the hasOwnCanvas flag we must have an HTML container to attach
the canvas where the element will be rendered.
So the noHTML flag must take this information into account:
- in some cases the noHTML flag is resetted depending on the hasOwnCanvas value;
- in some others, the hasOwnCanvas flag is set depending on the value of noHTML.
To reduced the risk of regressing something else, given that the issue only applies to a (for the default viewer) non-default configuration, this patch is purposely limited to only TextWidget-annotations in the display layer.
It happens only on windows with chrome.
For any reason, click event isn't correctly triggered and it seems work correctly
with pointerup.
And it seems that when drawing a svg on an OffscreenCanvas we need to wait
a little in order to be able to transfer it: it's why this patch adds
a check on the canvas content.
This has been deprecated since version `2.15.349`, which is a year ago.
Removing this will also simplify some upcoming changes, specifically outputting of JavaScript modules in the builds.
This removes the only remaining old and non-standard handling of exports in the `web/`-folder, since some initial attempts at outputting JavaScript modules in the builds have identified this file as a potential problem.
While this uses a hard-coded list, for overall simplicity, I don't believe that that's a big problem since:
- Generating this file automatically would require a bunch more parsing *every single time* that the library is built.
- The official API-surface doesn't change often enough for this to really impede development in any significant way.
- The added unit-test helps ensure that this list cannot accidentally become outdated.
When the editor is invisible (because on a non-rendered page) its parent is null.
But when we undo its deletion, we need to have a parent to attach it.
