On 26.10.2009, at 12:22, Martin Paljak wrote:
> As I've also written a web signing plugin for Firefox/Opera/Safari I  
> can say it has changed from "Netscape plugins" to a more useful,  
> cross-browser API. I don't know if the current signer can do it. But  
> it's not trivial, for example on OS X plugins can have 3 or four  
> different entry ways into the plugin, depending on CPU architecture  
> and browser - different browsers (Namely Opera) do it a bit  
> differently, at least they used to 1.5 years ago.
For more info: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NPAPI#Scripting_support

signer code is 8 years old ~2001. A modern plugin would expose a  
scriptable object, use the browser/modal windows for user interaction  
etc.





>
> On 24.10.2009, at 16:34, Diego Elio “Flameeyes” Pettenò wrote:
>
>> The attached patch simplifies the Makefile.am support for building  
>> the
>> nsplugin. Beside removing the recursion inside npincludes (unneeded),
>> and avoiding entering the directory entirely when nsplugin is  
>> disabled,
>> it also avoids building the static copy of the plugin itself (see  
>> [1])
>> and at the same time installs it directly inside the nsplugin  
>> directory,
>> rather than sing a symlink (and “polluting” the main library  
>> path).
>>
>> HTH,
>>
>> [1]
>> http://www.flameeyes.eu/autotools-mythbuster/libtool/index.html#libtool.plugins.dlopen
>>
>> -- 
>> Diego Elio Pettenò — “Flameeyes”
>> http://blog.flameeyes.eu/
>>
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