[haiku] Re: Firefox 3
- From: Tomas Wilhelmsson <tomas.wilhelmsson@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: haiku@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Sun, 2 Jan 2011 16:00:31 +0100
On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 6:44 PM, Ryan Leavengood <leavengood@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 1, 2011 at 5:51 AM, Sean Healy <jalopeura@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > Is there actual work happening on the Firefox 3 port?
>
> As far as I know the only browser stuff being worked on now is me
> continuing Stephan's great work on WebPositive. At some point it might
> be nice to also have the latest Firefox and Chromium browsers on
> Haiku, but for the foreseeable future all browser efforts will be on
> WebPositive. Of course I (and I'm sure whoever works on it in the
> future) will intend on making Web+ the best Haiku browser and
> hopefully something you will miss on other operating systems, instead
> of missing other browsers when running Haiku. But that will take a
> while.
>
> As for Gnash at some point I'll add support for plug-ins to Web+, and
> the first kind of plug-in to support is NPAPI plug-ins (which is what
> I think the Gnash Firefox plugin is.) It helps that Adrian is doing
> all the work on Gnash because that is one less thing we browser coders
> have to worry about. But I'll probably also want to run plug-ins in
> another process to prevent crashing the browser, which all modern
> browsers do now, and that will take a bit more work too.
>
> --
> Regards,
> Ryan
>
>
Just a question, does WebKit support npapi plugins? looking at this it looks
to me like it does and only needs to have a view etc implemented for it?
http://trac.webkit.org/browser/trunk/WebCore/plugins
or am i looking at the wrong place? :)
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