Show PDF inline

Feature	Status	ETA	Owner
Show PDF inline	Need to figure out platform approach	N/A	Alex Limi

Summary

We want to be able to show PDFs inline in the browser on at least the majority of the platforms we support.

Team

• Feature Manager: Alex Limi (for now)
• Lead Developer: Josh Aas?
• Product Manager:
• QA:
• UX:
• Accessibility:
• Security:
• Privacy:

Release Requirements

• Ability to view a PDF document inline on Windows, Mac OS X, and possibly Linux.

Next Steps & Open Issues

• Figure out what our approach is going to be.

One approach would be to use the platform support for PDF in the cases where it's available, e.g. on Mac OS X via PDFkit: http://code.google.com/p/firefox-mac-pdf/

We could also do a hybrid approach, e.g. use Adobe plugin on Windows, and PDFkit on the Mac.

Designs

• The download manager article talks about how to show content inline and allow people to download it too: http://limi.net/articles/improving-download-behaviors-web-browsers

Goals

• Make viewing of PDF in the web browser as painless as possible.