Architecture under constraint
Why a small product team chooses one boundary over another, and what that decision costs later.
Mobeera Engineering Blog
Building document software that feels at home on every screen.
Founder-written notes on the architecture, rendering systems, and product tradeoffs behind PDF Max and Mobeera's document tools.
Start with why PDF Max uses an HTML canvas viewer: the move from two native viewers to one shared interaction engine, and how tiles and caching keep the document moving.
What we write about
Rendering and interaction
How PDF Max keeps large documents responsive across panning, zooming, editing, and annotation.
What failed first
The blank frames, stale work, memory pressure, and platform differences that shaped the finished system.
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How I Chose PDF Max’s Architecture: Why the Viewer Uses HTML Canvas
Why PDF Max moved from two native viewers to a shared HTML canvas engine inside a native shell—and how LOD, tiling, and caching keep interaction fluid.
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