On Sun, Apr 19, 2015 at 4:41 AM, Evyatar Ben Halevi-Arbib < [email protected]> wrote:
> Hello, > > As I mentioned in a different thread, I encountered this message - > https://www.chromium.org/developers/npapi-deprecation > > The thing that worries me the most about that post is the fact it doesn't > mention PPAPI as an alternative to NPAPI. > Instead it says things like - > "In general, the core standards-based web technologies (HTML/CSS/JS) are > suitable for most client software development" > > Am I missing something here? Was NPAPI used for anything other than Flash > based content display? > NPAPI was used for all sorts of plugins: Silverlight, Java, Unity, Quicktime, etc. As far as Flash goes, it still works with Chrome (on all OSes including Linux) via Google's new PPAPI interface. There is a whole lot of information available on the Chromium website: https://www.chromium.org/developers/design-documents/pepper-plugin-implementation Thanks, Om > > Regards, > Evyatar Ben Halevi-Arbib >
