On 3/22/17 8:10 AM, Henri Sivonen wrote: > 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)? >
Note there is a bug on file to implement an spell-checker API for WebExtensions: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1343551 The API request was approved but is low priority. Jorge _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
