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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. hello by penis+fish · · Score: -1, Troll

    hellooo... asl???

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    helo wat is ur asl ?
  2. Popups... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Troll

    This is all so they can come up with non-blockable Java-Shockwave popups that work in all the non-IE browsers...

  3. I hope Microsoft won't be in charge of development by beef+curtains · · Score: -1, Troll

    Does this mean I'll soon be able to experience the joy of sudden, unexplained freezes & mysterious browser shutdowns (accompanied with XP's lovely "An error occurred. Would you like to send information to Microsoft?" dialog) with FireFox?

    Cuz that would be just swell.
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  4. Re:So Firefox is gonna change the plugin API again by Raunch · · Score: 0, Troll

    that's why there isn't a 1 before the .
    If you want to wait until there is, then it will be ready for automagic operations. If you want firefox now, well then, deal.

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  5. Re:If this is true by minus_273 · · Score: 0, Troll

    you mean you want a Mac where every browser uses /Library/Internet Plugins and use the same plugins

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  6. Huh!! by vijaya_chandra · · Score: -1, Troll

    The downside is they sometimes trash your hard drive

    If the government does such a thing as part of some anti-pron drive you people laud it but when a good hearted plugin does that it becomes a downside!?!

    "Where" is equality!?