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I couldn't find a demo online and was too lazy to deal with Chrome Local Policy madness, so I temporarily put one up here: http://pumpkin.micheljansen.org/~dawuss/pdf.js/test.html

It has some obvious flaws, but it already works surprisingly well!

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Christ on a stick. I submitted this and an example 3 hrs ago. sigh. oh well.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2657412

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Yeah, stuff falls off the top of "new" so easily too, since there's so much crap shoveled into it.

Edit: not sure why parent was deleted, it said that timing matters (which it does).

Upvoted for pity, well, at least you got your point across :)

You may wish to edit your comment to be less offensive to Christians and other religious readers. We may not be particularly vocal around here, but we do exist.

No, i don't think i'll edit it (nor do i wish to), but i will apologize for offense i have caused, as that was not my intent.

Edit: I just want to be clear, you see things like "goddamnit" and other ppl using the words "christ" or "god" (in what others may see as taking them in vain) all over the place including on HN. I don't see what the big deal is there either. So really, i do mean it when i say i intended no offense.

Thank you for the apology.

The distinction I would make between your comment and "goddamnit" is that while I don't particularly like either one, "goddamnit" doesn't actively mock God/people's religious beliefs about God. On the other hand "Christ on a stick" certainly seems like going out of one's way to mock the crucifixion/people with religious attachment to the crucifixion.

Does that help explain where I'm coming from?

Yes, that does.

Having thought it over more, i agree that it is trivializing of the crucifixion. However this probably isn't the best venue for ruminating on the notions of Christian symbolism & semiotics.

Suffice it to say, i will retire the phrase.

Go blog about your persecution?

A throwaway account for this comment?

It's probably still an asshole thing to do, but let's at least understand that if he offends you, it's because of something you've chosen to identify with.

Offending people for who they were born -- e.g. ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation -- is wrong and should be marginalized. Saying something that belittles or contradicts the particular explanation you use for understanding how the world works is a) probably unavoidable, and b) elective.

Moreover, "Christ on a stick" only makes sense because Christians have made a concerted effort over the centuries to ensure that when on thinks of American culture, Christian themes will be conjured. Thus, abusing those references while uttering profanities is expected and completely sensible, as long as one is being profane -- it's what comes immediately to mind.

git cloned test.html did not work with latest versions of Firefox, Chrome, Safari for me, yet yours does. I find it strange that there's some policy more restrictive on local content than on remote one, provided yours work perfectly.

Chrome does not allow scripts to access files on a local filesystem unless you specifically tell it to do so by starting it with --disable-web-security as an argument. See http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=40787 for a discussion (and a lot of frustrated people).

To simply start an arbitrary HTTP server to serve up files in a directory I use python's SimpleHTTPServer. This works on most Linux and Mac boxes as they package python along with the distribution or the OS.

python -m SimpleHTTPServer

This serves the files off the current folder under port 8000.

Something similar for Node.js: https://github.com/balupton/simple-server

Doesnt seem to work on MobileSafari. Using iOS 4.2.1.

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