{"id":96,"date":"2006-10-01T15:48:02","date_gmt":"2006-10-01T13:48:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/web.glandium.org\/blog\/?p=96"},"modified":"2010-01-27T08:52:37","modified_gmt":"2010-01-27T07:52:37","slug":"plugin-api-for-browsers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/glandium.org\/blog\/?p=96","title":{"rendered":"Plugin API for browsers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reading about the future of the (now) Adobe Flash Player plugin for Linux on the <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/penguin.swf\/\">Penguin.SWF blog<\/a>, I came to the conclusion that the plugin API for browsers (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.org\/projects\/plugins\/npruntime.html\">NP Runtime<\/a>) just sucks.<br \/>\nWhy on earth do a plugin need to depend on openssl, while the browser already deals with SSL and associated certificates. That also means plugins will deal very badly with client-side certificates.<br \/>\nI guess plugins also have to implement HTTP requests themselves...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reading about the future of the (now) Adobe Flash Player plugin for Linux on the Penguin.SWF blog, I came to the conclusion that the plugin API for browsers (NP Runtime) just sucks. Why on earth do a plugin need to depend on openssl, while the browser already deals with SSL and associated certificates. That also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[23],"class_list":["post-96","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-firefox","tag-en"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/glandium.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/glandium.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/glandium.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glandium.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glandium.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=96"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/glandium.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":759,"href":"https:\/\/glandium.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96\/revisions\/759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/glandium.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=96"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glandium.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=96"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/glandium.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=96"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}