- From: Maciej Stachowiak <mjs@apple.com>
- Date: Fri, 13 Mar 2009 12:33:14 -0700
- To: Boris Zbarsky <bzbarsky@mit.edu>
- Cc: Robert J Burns <rob@robburns.com>, HTMLWG <public-html@w3.org>
On Mar 13, 2009, at 9:40 AM, Boris Zbarsky wrote: > >> Again, you earlier mentioned a known issue. Is there an bug id in >> mozilla's tracker on this? Or somewhere else? Does Mozilla maintain >> the NSAPI specification? Or are you talking about specifically >> Gecko-specific enhancements to the plugin API? > > To my knowledge, there is no NPAPI specification past "what works in > Netscape 4." Opera, Gecko, and Safari all have implementations of > NPAPI that agree on the basics; I would not be at all suprised if > they differ in some of the details. In this case I would be talking > about a Gecko-specific addition to Gecko's NPAPI implementation, > though there would be nothing stopping Opera and Safari from > implementing it as well. Last I heard, plugin-futures@mozilla.org a > mailing list where discussion about NPAPI changes happens and where > representatives of the developers of all three three of the above > browsers, as well as various plug-in vendors, participate In general, Safari, Opera and Gecko try to coordinate NPAPI changes via plugin-futures and even though not every browser implements all recent additions, we do at least try to design them not to be specific to one browser. Regards, Maciej
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