Over time, as we've been introducing JavaScript code to modify CSS variables, we've been adding shorthand properties to various classes to reduce unnecessary repetition when accessing the document-styles.
Rather than repeating this in multiple places, it seems overall simpler to just introduce a constant and re-use that throughout the viewer instead.
For any viewer component not listed in `web/pdf_viewer.component.js`, it shouldn't be necessary to provide a default value for the `l10n`-parameters.
Note also that these *specific* components are heavily tailored towards the default viewer use-case, rather than for general usage.
This reverts commit 9e4552d792 for causing the sidebar to become too narrow when the entire viewer is resized.
**Steps to reproduce:**
1. Load the viewer.
2. Open the sidebar.
3. Resize the sidebar, making it wider.
4. Resize the entire viewer, i.e. the browser window, making it *narrower* than 400 pixels.
**Expected result:**
The sidebar width is clamped at 200 pixels.
**Actual result:**
The sidebar becomes too narrow.
The cause of this bug is, in hindsight, quite obvious since the `clamp` helper function implicitly assumes that the `min`/`max` arguments are correctly sorted. At viewer widths *below* 400 pixels, that assumption is broken which explains the bug.
Since the goal has always been, essentially since the `EventBus` abstraction was added, to remove all dispatching of DOM events[1] from the viewer components this patch tries to address one thing that came up when updating the examples:
The DOM events are always dispatched last, and it's thus guaranteed that all internal event listeners have been invoked first.
However, there's no such guarantees with the general `EventBus` functionality and the order in which event listeners are invoked is *not* specified. With the promotion of the `EventBus` in the examples, over DOM events, it seems like a good idea to at least *try* to keep this ordering invariant[2] intact.
Obviously this won't prevent anyone from manually calling the new *internal* viewer component methods on the `EventBus`, but hopefully that won't be too common since any existing third-party code would obviously use the `on`/`off` methods and that all of the examples shows the *correct* usage (which should be similarily documented on the "Third party viewer usage" Wiki-page).
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[1] Looking at the various Firefox-tests, I'm not sure that it'll be possible to (easily) re-write all of them to not rely on DOM events (since getting access to `PDFViewerApplication` might be generally difficult/messy depending on scopes).
In any case, even if technically feasible, it would most likely add *a lot* of complication that may not be desireable in the various Firefox-tests. All-in-all, I'd be fine with keeping the DOM events only for the `MOZCENTRAL` target and gated on `Cu.isInAutomation` (or similar) rather than a preference.
[2] I wouldn't expect any *real* bugs in a custom implementation, simply based on event ordering, but it nonetheless seem like a good idea if any "external" events are still handled last.
In order to eventually get rid of SystemJS and start using native `import`s instead, we'll need to provide "complete" file identifiers since otherwise there'll be MIME type errors when attempting to use `import`.
Please find additional details about the ESLint rule at https://eslint.org/docs/rules/prefer-const
Note that this patch is generated automatically, by using the ESLint `--fix` argument, and will thus require some additional clean-up (which is done separately).
Note that Prettier, purposely, has only limited [configuration options](https://prettier.io/docs/en/options.html). The configuration file is based on [the one in `mozilla central`](https://searchfox.org/mozilla-central/source/.prettierrc) with just a few additions (to avoid future breakage if the defaults ever changes).
Prettier is being used for a couple of reasons:
- To be consistent with `mozilla-central`, where Prettier is already in use across the tree.
- To ensure a *consistent* coding style everywhere, which is automatically enforced during linting (since Prettier is used as an ESLint plugin). This thus ends "all" formatting disussions once and for all, removing the need for review comments on most stylistic matters.
Many ESLint options are now redundant, and I've tried my best to remove all the now unnecessary options (but I may have missed some).
Note also that since Prettier considers the `printWidth` option as a guide, rather than a hard rule, this patch resorts to a small hack in the ESLint config to ensure that *comments* won't become too long.
*Please note:* This patch is generated automatically, by appending the `--fix` argument to the ESLint call used in the `gulp lint` task. It will thus require some additional clean-up, which will be done in a *separate* commit.
(On a more personal note, I'll readily admit that some of the changes Prettier makes are *extremely* ugly. However, in the name of consistency we'll probably have to live with that.)
Sometimes we also used `@return` or `@returns`, but `@type` is what
the JSDoc documentation recommends. This also improves the documentation
because before this commit the types were not shown and now they are.
I've absolutely no idea why I wrote the code that way originally, since the nested `if`s are not really helping readability one bit.
Hence this patch which changes things to use early `return`s instead, to help readability.
Rather than manually clamping the `width` here, we can just `export` an already existing helper function from `ui_utils.js` instead.
(Hopefully it will eventually be possible to replace this helper function with a native `Math.clamp` function, given that there exists a "Stage 1 Proposal" for adding such a thing to the ECMAScript specification.)
By making use of modern CSS features, in this case [CSS variables](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Using_CSS_variables), implementing sidebar resizing is actually quite simple. Not only will the amount of added code be fairly small, but it should also be easy to maintain since there's no need for complicated JavaScript hacks in order to update the CSS. Another benefit is that the JavaScript code doesn't need to make detailed assumptions about the exact structure of the HTML/CSS code.
Obviously this will not work in older browsers, such as IE, that lack support for CSS variables. In those cases sidebar resizing is simply disabled (via feature detection), and the resizing DOM element hidden, and the behaviour is thus *identical* to the current (fixed-width) sidebar.
However, considering the simplicity of the implementation, I really don't see why limiting this feature to "modern" browsers is a problem.
Finally, note that a few edge-cases meant that the patch is a bit larger than what the basic functionality would dictate. Among those is first of all proper RTL support, and secondly (automatic) resizing of the sidebar when the width of the *entire* viewer changes. Another, pre-existing, issue fixed here is the incomplete interface of `NullL10n`.
*Please note:* This patch has been successfully tested in both LTR and RTL viewer locales, in recent versions of Firefox and Chrome.
Fixes 2072.