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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."

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  1. fp by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Apple rox, and so do I!

  2. richer web? urrgh... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    "create a richer web experience"

    Why? The best thing to happen to the web lately has been firefox+adblock - cutting out all the useless graphics and flash. I'd rather have a web that focused on interesting content, not fancy animations and complex interfaces.