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!!Con 2020 - Playing Breakout… inside a PDF!! by Omar Rizwan

Name: !!Con 2020 - Playing Breakout… inside a PDF!! by Omar Rizwan
Description: Omar Rizwan's short !!Con talk about writing a Breakout game in JavaScript that runs inside a PDF. It explores the surprisingly large PDF specification, including its scripting support.

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Cited on HN 3 times, 2021–2024, never outright recommended score 0

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Cited as the fun, surprising example of how much a PDF can do, and the talk behind the Horrifying PDF Experiments repo.

Omar Rizwan's short !!Con talk about writing a Breakout game in JavaScript that runs inside a PDF. It explores the surprisingly large PDF specification, including its scripting support.

“the repo's < > readme points to the talk given on this” (HN, 2024)

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@jeroenhd Mar 2023 Cites it

on HN thread TinyVG – an alternative binary encoded vector graphics format

Support will vary by viewer, but Chrome's built-in PDF viewer supports a subset of Javascript. It's enough to play Breakout inside a PDF: [this video]

Playing Breakout inside a PDF via Chrome's JavaScript subset.

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@mdaniel Jun 2024 Cites it

on HN thread Horrifying PDF Experiments

the repo's < [link] > readme points to the talk given on this: [this video] the 2021 submission of the repo got some lively commentary [link]

Talk accompanying the repo.

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@vanderZwan Apr 2021 Makes a joke

on HN thread Firefox 88.0

> PDF forms now support JavaScript embedded in PDF files. Some PDF forms use JavaScript for validation and other interactive features. As far as I can tell I still can't play breakout in a PDF in Firefox though (and I think that's for the better) [0] [link] [1] [this video]

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