[lug] Netscape/Mozilla plugins

[D. Stimits]

Rob Riggs wrote:
> 
> D. Stimits wrote:
> 
> >Patching wouldn't be very popular, compared to plugins. To some extent,
> >people even resist plugins.
> >
> But what you propose does seem useful and sounds to me like an
> innovation that the Mozilla team might be interested in integrating into
> the core system if you submit the code for it. Then you need not worry
> about either patches or plugins.

This is true, but creating a whole new level of hooks is a major
different job from creating a plugin for an existing API. Especially in
terms of how people will look at it for security, and for
cross-platform. What I do on Linux might not translate well to other
platforms. If I decide something like this is worth doing, I would
probably try and get the actual source patched though.

D. Stimits, stimits at idcomm.com

> 
> -Rob
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