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		lights0123 on March 4, 2021 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Local PDF Tools – Powered by WebAssembly That website loads WASM by embedding base64 in the HTML, which is good for saving it as a single file but horrible for WebKit support ("The operation is insecure", it complains), transfer size, and speed.

kc0bfv on March 6, 2021 [–]

Thanks for that - I haven't tried it there...

Yup - single file operation was a design goal, but I bet there's a better way to get it working than the hack I used.

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