On May 26, 2013 3:08 PM, "Random832" <random...@fastmail.us> wrote: > Why is the requirement that it conform to your IPC protocol* less onerous than requiring it to conform to a particular in-process API that would make it a "plug-in"?
May it owe to the fact that this particular IPC protocol is *the* protocol used for nearly all IPC in the system? > *which has to handle navigation on both ends, A] what happens when you click a link in your viewer and B] what happens to your viewer when the user navigates away from it. Try lynx and see. > Also, is the browser required to download the whole file before opening the viewer, or can for example a PDF viewer display the first page before the last page is downloaded? How does this problem differ from downloading a file from URI in IRC chat or from mail? Why should it be solved differently in browser then? ---- Dmitrij D. Czarkoff
