Aside from any other issues, my recollection was that there had not been any 
work to formally specify NaCl or Pepper, has that changed?

I'm also concerned as this adds a significant maintenance burden to the project 
for no obvious benefit.

--Oliver

On Jun 30, 2013, at 11:41 PM, halton huo <halton....@gmail.com> wrote:

> Dear WebKit developers and users,
> 
> I’m pleased to announce the initial contribution of Pepper[1] and NaCl[2] 
> support for WebKit2. The home page is located at 
> https://github.com/nacl-webkit/native_client/wiki. 
> The initial code include supporting of:
> * Partial pepper api supporting includes: 2d, scripting, url_loader, file 
> chooser, audio, mouse and keyboard events, websockets. 
> * Basic NaCl support with post message api (HelloWorld from nacl_sdk)
> 
> There are some sceenshots on 
> https://github.com/nacl-webkit/native_client/wiki/Screenshots 
> 
> Q&A
> =======
> Q: Why this project?
> A: We enjoy working with the WebKit projects. We also enjoy technologies like 
> NaCl, and wanted to lower the barrier to letting people integrate NaCl into 
> their WebKit2 based projects. We prototyped this work and now want to make it 
> available for others to use if they want.
> 
> Q: Can I modify and re-use the project?
> A: Yes. The code is inherited from the Chromium, WebKit2 and native_client 
> projects. As such, this project follows the same licenses.
> 
> Q: Why not upstream?
> A: There are two main reasons. First, the current code is only a prototype to 
> support NaCl in the Linux EFL port of WebKit2. There still remains work to be 
> done before the patches would be appropriate to try and take upstream. 
> Second, the WebKit community has stated in the past that they did not want 
> NaCl upstream.
> 
> Q: How to contribute?
> A: Fork the repo on github and submit the pull request, committers will 
> review the patches. For the time being, the initial contributors are 
> committers, we're welcome to anyone who can show his ability to be as 
> committer. Follow the https://github.com/nacl-webkit/native_client/wiki/Code 
> to get code and build.
> 
> Q: Any next plan?
> A: We don't have any formal plans for the project moving forward; it is being 
> developed as a part-time effort by a few engineers. As such, there is no 
> guarantee for future work. Again, anyone is welcome to contribute! Or fork 
> the project and run with it.
> 
> [1] http://code.google.com/p/ppapi/ 
> [2] http://code.google.com/p/nativeclient/
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