Icedtea supports something called "Pepper"?

[Omair Majid]

Hi,

* helpcrypto helpcrypto <helpcrypto at gmail.com> [2013-10-28 08:25]:
> Last days I have seen a couple of sources claiming (Google) Chrome and
> (Mozilla) Firefox are going to abandon NPAPI and start using Peeper plugins.

There's quite a few sources saying that for Chrom(ium|e), but this is
the first I am hearing of Firefox doing the same. Most other source say
this is not going to happen [1][2].

> Is Icetea "ready" for that possible change?

No. IcedTea-Web uses NPAPI. Porting it to use the Pepper API is a
non-trivial task. As far as I know, there's no compatibility layer in
Pepper for NPAPI.

Personally, I would be more than happy to okay (otherwise sane) patches
adding Pepper support to IcedTea-Web.

> Will all my applets fail to work next year? (as they are doing with latest
> Oracle releases)

Yes, if the browsers break the plugin API IcedTea-Web uses, IcedTea-Web
will not be able to run any applets :(

Thanks,
Omair

[1] https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=729481
[2] https://wiki.mozilla.org/NPAPI:Pepper