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5 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Jonas Jenwald
45adf33187 Move the workerPort from the global PDFJS object and into GlobalWorkerOptions instead 2018-02-16 13:22:35 +01:00
Jonas Jenwald
56a8c934dd [api-major] Remove the PDFJS.disableWorker option
Despite this patch removing the `disableWorker` option itself, please note that we'll still fallback to loading the worker file(s) on the main-thread when running in environments without proper Web Worker support.

Furthermore it's still possible, even with this patch, to force the use of fake workers by manually loading the necessary file using a `<script>` tag on the main-thread.[1]
That way, the functionality of the now removed `SINGLE_FILE` build target and the resulting `build/pdf.combined.js` file can still be achieved simply by adding e.g. `<script src="build/pdf.worker.js"></script>` to the HTML (obviously with the path adjusted as needed).

Finally note that the `disableWorker` option is a performance footgun, and unfortunately many existing third-party examples actually use it without providing any sort of warning/justification.

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[1] This approach is used in the default viewer, since certain kind of debugging may be easier if the code is running directly on the main-thread.
2018-01-31 12:52:10 +01:00
Franck Freiburger
a0b7f84461 Update webpack.js to support browsers that do not have the Web Workers API 2017-05-26 22:02:07 +02:00
Yury Delendik
51767d63fe Init PDFWorker via MesssagePort. 2017-02-24 13:33:18 -06:00
Yury Delendik
10f702f60e Adds readme file for the pdfjs-dist repo. 2014-09-24 07:10:09 -05:00