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

[Jeff Johnson]

On Nov 18, 2010, at 11:03 AM, Simon Fraser wrote:

> 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

Huh, what? NSView-based plugins are deprecated? This is news to me. Could you please clarify this statement?

-Jeff