New Alliance Hopes To Standardize Web Plug-Ins

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."

Comments

aargh...

[chachob]

they are just trying to get rid of the fanboys since exploits will affect ALL browsers then... ;)

What about IE?

[grandmofftarkin]

Or is this only for browsers that are actually useful?

Re:What about IE?

[nizo]

Actually IE already has plenty of plugins. They even install themselves! The downside is they sometimes trash your hard drive or turn your machine into a spam zombie.

Oh the irony

[krray]

The boys in Redmond must have smacked their head and said, "IE"

Re:Where's MS

[MikeDX]

Maybe they think a world dominated standard will be open to abuse and be more prone to attack from worms, backdoors, trojans, etc..

Oh great!

[revery]

I think the internet's broken. That first link, heise online, it's in a whole other language.

I've already tried resetting the defaults on IE...

Can anyone help?

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I uhm... write stuff, but not well, and not often

Richer?

[Anonymous Coward]

Great! I, for one, welcome our new Punch The Monkey and Win 10,000 Banana Points overlords.

Har!

What they really need.

[kabocox]

What each of these groups needs is an IE ActiveX helper object that automatically downloads and installs their web browser on a visitors computer and then it should make their browser the default while removing "IE" icons from the desktop and start menu.

Re:Wow

[Epistax]

Joe Sixpack has a computer? Oh wait, you mean a six pack in the fridge, not a six pack on the abdomen

Re:If this is true

[tod_miller]

"What if he uses an inferior OS"

I prefer the term, 'differently advantaged' when talking about Windows, it is so less offensive :-) ;-)

MS has already standardized a web plugin

[Anonymous Coward]

I call it a "virus".

Do I see Sun Microsystems in the list?

[rmsousa]

Haha! This will be the return of the HotJava browser! Now Sun will show everyone what it is to be light and fast! HotJava with plugin support will rule the world!

Re:Q:

[polyp2000]

Will they consider non-rectangular plugins?

Boy, i've never heard of such a concept; quick patent the idea and dontate it to an open-source project before one of the big boys gets it!