On Wed, Mar 22, 2017 at 3:52 PM, Nicolas B. Pierron
<nicolas.b.pier...@mozilla.com> wrote:
> On 03/22/2017 09:18 AM, Henri Sivonen wrote:
>>
>> Without XPCOM extensions, what's the story for out-of-tree spell checkers?
>>
>> […], which implements
>> mozISpellCheckingEngine in JS and connects to the libvoikko[1] back
>> end via jsctypes. […]
>
>
> Would compiling libvoikko to WebAssembly remove the need for jsctypes and
> XPCOM?

It would remove the need for jsctypes, but how would a WebAssembly
program in a Web Extension get to act as a spell checking engine once
extensions can no longer implement XPCOM interfaces
(mozISpellCheckingEngine in this case)?

-- 
Henri Sivonen
hsivo...@hsivonen.fi
https://hsivonen.fi/
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