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Thank you! I'll take a look at improving rendering embedded font support. And that's a neat idea to be able to download it for offline, I'll give some thought

Thank you! I'll take a look at improving rendering embedded font support. And that's a neat idea to be able to download it for offline, I'll give some thought to that. Appreciate your feedback!

KTibow 1y ago
FYI - using service workers would automatically make it work offline and possibly be easier than trying to bundle it into one HTML file.
- throwanem 1y ago
  Oh, that's an excellent point, especially since this is a perfect case for workers more broadly. I've had a bit of an app dev interregnum these last or postpandemic years; if service worker support has advanced that broadly, then that's wonderful news! Not especially surprising news, I suspect, but wonderful. Last I afforded close attention, the state of play for service workers in iOS Safari particularly was "don't bother." Since I like an iPhone - or have thought at least they're least worst for 13 years and counting - you can probably imagine how this would have depressed my interest: Even though irrelevant here in that touchscreen PDF editing is an extremely hard problem and none I'd expect a solo dev to address, just knowing nothing I built with a worker I would myself be able to use, has made me not want to sink good time and effort into the topic at all. Best case that's all just wasted; worst case, it creates a dilemma I might not escape without a new regret.
  - philjohnson 1y ago
    The service worker functionality can be expressed as a PWA! Based on the comments I'm thinking of heading in that direction. As far as touchscreen PDF editing, that is 100% doable and something I plan on adding soon. Touchevents are supported natively in the web https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Touch_events https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Touch_event...
dimava 1y ago
You should make your app a PWA [1] PWAs are basically "installable" pages which open in their own browser window and generally can work offline [1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Progressive_web_apps https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Progressive_web...

Thank you! I'll take a look at improving rendering embedded font support. And that's a neat idea to be able to download it for offline, I'll give some thought to that. Appreciate your feedback!

KTibow 1y ago

FYI - using service workers would automatically make it work offline and possibly be easier than trying to bundle it into one HTML file.

throwanem 1y ago
Oh, that's an excellent point, especially since this is a perfect case for workers more broadly. I've had a bit of an app dev interregnum these last or postpandemic years; if service worker support has advanced that broadly, then that's wonderful news! Not especially surprising news, I suspect, but wonderful. Last I afforded close attention, the state of play for service workers in iOS Safari particularly was "don't bother." Since I like an iPhone - or have thought at least they're least worst for 13 years and counting - you can probably imagine how this would have depressed my interest: Even though irrelevant here in that touchscreen PDF editing is an extremely hard problem and none I'd expect a solo dev to address, just knowing nothing I built with a worker I would myself be able to use, has made me not want to sink good time and effort into the topic at all. Best case that's all just wasted; worst case, it creates a dilemma I might not escape without a new regret.
- philjohnson 1y ago
  The service worker functionality can be expressed as a PWA! Based on the comments I'm thinking of heading in that direction. As far as touchscreen PDF editing, that is 100% doable and something I plan on adding soon. Touchevents are supported natively in the web https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Touch_events https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Touch_event...

dimava 1y ago

You should make your app a PWA [1] PWAs are basically "installable" pages which open in their own browser window and generally can work offline [1] https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Progressive_web_apps https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Progressive_web...