Monday, July 11, 2005

 

Asking the Mozilla Devs

All right; the long and short of it is that the "simple" plugin from last time didn't register or otherwise work. As such, I decided to pop over to irc.mozilla.org and see if I couldn't straighten things out directly with the developers. Apparently, the XPCOM plugin interfaces are deprecated >_<. So… there's no reason not to just use the plain-jane C NPAPI interface. I'll go ahead and design with that in mind.

# posted by Quandary @ Monday, July 11, 2005
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Just a quick thought: We should try to avoid using the eye-candy gtk offers to plugins, since IIRC that won't work with opera. And XPCOM probably wounldn't work witrh opera either... see you latter on irc
# posted by Anonymous tgc : 11 July, 2005 04:52
 
Well, we've explicitly marked our plugin as "mozilla" — not as a generic "work in any browser" plugin. If we're looking to work in lots of browsers, we should probably rename the directory to "netscape." A list of browsers we want to support would be nice, too.
# posted by Blogger Quandary : 11 July, 2005 05:22
 
an unofficial list of browsers we wish to support: Mozilla based browsers, konquorer and opera, in that order.
All three can be done using NPAPI.
I can't remember if konquorer can handle gtk-plugin-stuff...
I think Christophe started a KPart-plugin, but couldn't get i working properly.
# posted by Anonymous tgc : 11 July, 2005 05:40
 
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