Re: Proposal for serializing NPAPI across processes

Mike Shaver wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 17, 2009 at 9:47 PM, Chris Jones<[email protected]> wrote:
>> Putting plugins in a separate process breaks the current NPAPI threading
>> model.  The reason is that a plugin can register callbacks into a native
>> event loop in its subprocess.
> 
> You might ask the WebKit guys how they approached this for separating
> Flash from Safari in a separate process in the most recent Safari
> releases.  It would be nice if there were only a single distorted
> threading model for plugin authors to work with. :-)
> 

ISTR Josh saying there's no such thing as a native event loop of a child 
window on OS X.  These pages seem to agree

   https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mac:NPAPI_Event_Models
   https://wiki.mozilla.org/Mac:NPAPI_Drawing_Models

If that's indeed the case, then I don't believe Webkit on Safari faced 
this problem.  I'll still follow up with them tomorrow, though.

Cheers,
Chris