I'm wondering what's the status of the VW web browser plugin. The PluginDevGuide.pdf states:
The VisualWorks 7.3 release provides only the ActiveX
Control version of the plugin. A future release will also include a
version of the plugin which implements the new cross-browser NPAPI
and will run in newer versions of NPAPI enabled browsers such as
Netscape, Mozilla, Opera and Firefox.
Does the presence of this old note from 7.3 mean the plugin is stagnant? We have interest in deploying apps both as a stand alone client and as a web app. It seems that the plugin would mean less work, since we wouldn't have to maintain a standard version as well as a Seaside version. But I'd like to pass along to mgmt what the feasible options are, and I'm woefully ignorant about all things ActiveX.
In particular, our enterprise deploys a customized Internet Exploder, version 7, and I'm unsure whether that would affect plugin functionality.
Yes, I think "stagnant" would be a reasonable
description. In the development of the newer plugin version we ran into a
lot of difficulties and it became apparent that plugins were not a
well-supported mechanism in browsers (e.g. we ran into platform bugs that
the browser vendors acknowledged but essentially were not going to fix)
and that the preferred mode of development was moving strongly towards
Javascript. So we suspended work on the newer plugin in favour of work on
things like Seaside and WebVelocity. There is a release note to taht
effect in 7.7 - "Plugin Obsolesced".
I would not expect that a customized version of the browser would affect
functionality, though obviously it would depend on the nature of the
customizations.
At 11:36 AM 2010-10-14, Dave Stevenson wrote:
I'm wondering what's the status
of the VW web browser plugin. The PluginDevGuide.pdf states:
The VisualWorks 7.3 release provides only the ActiveX
Control version of the plugin. A future release will also include
a
version of the plugin which implements the new cross-browser
NPAPI
and will run in newer versions of NPAPI enabled browsers such as
Netscape, Mozilla, Opera and Firefox.
Does the presence of this old note from 7.3 mean the plugin is stagnant?
We have interest in deploying apps both as a stand alone client and as a
web app. It seems that the plugin would mean less work, since we wouldn't
have to maintain a standard version as well as a Seaside version. But I'd
like to pass along to mgmt what the feasible options are, and I'm
woefully ignorant about all things ActiveX.
In particular, our enterprise deploys a customized Internet Exploder,
version 7, and I'm unsure whether that would affect plugin
functionality.
>...
>In particular, our enterprise deploys a customized Internet Exploder, version 7,
>
Please make sure this Internet Exploder does not fall into the wrong
hands. I would not wish any cyber-terrorists to get hold of it.
Yours with a smile :-)
Niall spots-typos-when-not-making-them-himself Ross
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