pending mac carbon vm 3.8.14b2 with browser plugin

Due to funding from Viewpoints Research Institute I'm please to  
announce the beta program for the macintosh intel 3.8.14b2 browser  
plugin.

The new mac browser plugin now supports macintel on safari and  
firefox. Earlier plugins based on 3.8.8 only worked on mac powerpc or  
with safari if you ran it in powerpc mode on a macintel machine.

This plugin follows the logic defined by the unix plugin where we  
have a small netscape based browser plugin that interfaces to a  
headless mac carbon VM via unix pipes that enable the transfer of UI  
events and drawing instructions which use a shared memory location  
for the graphics context.

People who are interested in testing should email me directly to  
pointers how to install this VM and plugin stub for testing. Although  
based somewhat on the unix plugin code base it contains lots of new  
code to support quickdraw browser based events, and quartz based  
drawing needs.

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John M McIntosh <[hidden email]> writes:
> Due to funding from Viewpoints Research Institute I'm please to
> announce the beta program for the macintosh intel 3.8.14b2 browser
> plugin.
>
> The new mac browser plugin now supports macintel on safari and
> firefox. Earlier plugins based on 3.8.8 only worked on mac powerpc or
> with safari if you ran it in powerpc mode on a macintel machine.

Cool!  That will enable a lot of fun experiments.

Will it be able to talk back to the browser, in particular to tell it
to switch pages?  If so, you could do things like the Morphic-based
wiki Jeff Rick played with at Georgia Tech several years ago.

Also, will it be possible for the project window's size to be based on
the browser window's size?

Anyway, fun stuff!

-Lex