Linux native AMD64 platform support and Mozilla plug-in

[Mark Wielaard]

Hi Max,

On Mon, 2007-10-29 at 14:07 +0000, Massimo Perga wrote:
>   I'm writing to this ML after having asked to the generic
> "discussion" ML about Linux native AMD64 platform support and Mozilla
> plug-in. In particular, they were mentioning gcjwebplugin and its
> support for OpenJDK.
> 
> Could you please tell me what's the status of the development and if
> you need my help to eventually improve it ?

For IcedTea, the OpenJDK/GNU Classpath hibrid shipped by GNU/Linux
distros we did already convert gcjwebplugin to work with openjdk.
http://fitzsim.org/blog/?p=21 That works pretty nicely. It was
integrated into IcedTea 1.3
http://langel.wordpress.com/2007/08/28/icedtea-13-released/
And now actually ships with Fedora RawHide and in other distros
http://spindazzle.org/greenblog/index.php?/archives/73-IcedTea-is-Fedorable.html

The main thing missing is liveconnect/javascript interaction. I thought
Tom had a plan for that involving Rhino (the javascript implementation
written in java), but I don't really remember the details (and I am
hoping Tom will correct me if I am wrong).

For now there is one open bug report against it involving percentage
height/width params:
http://icedtea.classpath.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=76

It needs lots more testing of course.

Cheers,

Mark