[webkit-dev] Mac OSX, Cocoa event model in NPAPI , NSView, and Out of process plugins.

Simon Fraser simon.fraser at apple.com
Thu Nov 18 09:03:11 PST 2010


On Nov 18, 2010, at 12:23 AM, Choon Sik Cho wrote:

> Hello to everyone.
> 
> Well, currently chrome has out of process plugins. and firefox 4 will
> use same model.
> 
> That means plugin process is now seperated from browser process.
> Plugin process might NOT have window at all.
> 
> My plugin is based on NSView.

NSView-based plugins are deprecated for this very reason. We suggest you implement your plugin as an NPAPI plugin.

Simon



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