Icedtea supports something called "Pepper"?

[Andrew]

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> 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 :(
> 

I don't think it's "if" is it, but when? It's certainly on the cards for
Chrome/Chromium and that's the most popular FOSS web browser.

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

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Andrew :)

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