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New Alliance Hopes To Standardize Web Plug-Ins

Posted by timothy on from the chatzilla-everywhere dept.

mksolutions writes "As reported on heise online and mozilla.org 'Apple, Macromedia, Opera and Sun Microsystems join in push to modernize plugins and create a richer web experience.' They are to develop a common, cross-platform plug-in interface which will be used in Mozilla products as well as Opera and Safari and will be released under an open source license."

2 of 365 comments (clear)

  1. Re:Where's MS by adamh · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    So you're suggesting we dump html and move to flash? Ignore the open standard and move to something proprietary? I really don't think that's a good idea.

    If flash were made by microsoft and not macromedia I'm sure that you wouldn't be suggesting this.

  2. Too much work for too little people by umthie10 · · Score: 0, Flamebait

    I just checked out this site for some browser stats. http://www.w3schools.com/browsers/browsers_stats.a sp Obviously the mozilla following is growing, up to 11.4% according to that page. How long and hard do you think these companies are going to work for 11.4% of the market... Is there any point to it, if it actually goes anywhere MS is going to do the same embrase-extend-destroy technique it pioneered. just my defeatest theory.