Icedtea supports something called "Pepper"?

[Andrew Haley]

On 10/28/2013 06:07 PM, Andrew wrote:
>>
>> 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.

Is it really?  Chrome isn't FOSS, and Chromium is what, maybe 1% ?  I
suppose no-one knows because no-one is gathering the statistics.

Andrew.