Icedtea supports something called "Pepper"?

[Andrew]

----- Original Message -----
> 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.
> 

The relationship between Chrome & Chromium is much the same as that between
the proprietary Oracle JDK and OpenJDK; the differences are mainly branding
and the inclusion of proprietary plugins & codecs [0].  If a plugin supports
one, it supports the other.

As to usage, [1] suggests that Chrome has now overtaken Internet Explorer.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chromium_(web_browser)#Differences_from_Google_Chrome
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers

> Andrew.
> 
> 
> 

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