Re: Mozilla is blocking NPAPI Plugin !!

On 9/24/2013 9:24 AM, amol t wrote:
> Thats where I got confused, here is the link for the article http://techcrunch.com/2013/09/23/say-goodbye-to-npapi/
> As they mentioned Google Chrome will block NPAPI based plugins since Jan 2014 and Mozilla from December.
The Google announcement is rather unclear. When they say "blocking" they 
mean "making the plugin click-to-play". They also say they are planning 
on removing NPAPI entirely by the end of 2014, but that depends on 
market usage.

>
> As I was just started creating a plugin with NPAPI, this news really stuck me up. So as per you guys, I think, its go ahead for NPAPI plugin.
We strongly discourage creation of new NPAPI plugins. NPAPI is still 
available for legacy plugins but it considered a deprecated technology 
stack. Depending on your use cases, using new HTML5 features may be most 
appropriate, or writing a Firefox extension.

> But are there any alternatives besides using NPAPI as for Chrome they suggesst PPAPI or NaCl.
Mozilla has no plans at present to support PPAPI or NaCl: anything you 
can do within the sandboxes of these technologies you can also do with 
the raw web and asm.js in a more portable manner.

--BDS