Icedtea supports something called "Pepper"?

[helpcrypto helpcrypto]

Hi Adam. Havent replied you in a while!


On Tue, Jun 10, 2014 at 3:57 AM, Adam Domurad <domuradical at gmail.com> wrote:

> helpcrypto helpcrypto <helpcrypto at ...> writes:
>
> This was a mail from november 2013, many things have changed since then...



>  > Hi all.
> > 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.
>
> No. Google Chrome is abandoning NPAPI in favour of Google Native Client --
> something *very* different in philosophy. Flash is currently the sole
> *special exception* that is allowed to use PPAPI (Pepper)!
>
> I repeat: Supporting PPAPI will *not* help icedtea-web run on
> Chrome/Chromium unless icedtea-web also has this special exceptional
> treatment! This is possible by patching Chromium I presume -- but,
> unfortunately, not a trivial matter.
>
Mozilla said they are going to continue supporting NPAPI.
As NaCi doesnt have "privileged access" neither, PPAPI wont be a solution
for MY needs
Perhaps Webcrypto...


I might have taken this up if it was a 'simple' matter of a NPAPI <-> PPAPI
> bridge (such things do exist, at least in part, from some google-work). But
> it's a bit hopeless with Google Native Client. At least -- it needs serious
> thought and work.
>
IMHO, it appears Java for Web (except JNLP, which actually isnt "for Web")
is dead as we know it for Google.
Long live the applets!
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