[Sugar-devel] Flash on Browse Activity - Ubuntu

[Jonas Smedegaard]

Quoting Sebastian Silva (2016-03-01 17:21:07)
> On 01/03/16 10:16, Gustavo Duarte wrote:
>> If mostly Browser  are supporting Flash, like Firefox, Chrome and
>> Epiphany, why Browse Activity, not ? 
>> Browse is based on Webkit (Chrome and Safari also) and Webkit support 
>> Flash.

Google-based browsers originally derived their _rendering_ engine on 
Webkit, but you need to check which _plugin_ API is used.

Mozilla-based browsers use NPAPI for their plugins, Google-based 
browsers use PPAPI plugins. I don't know which API Webkit-based browsers 
use, if any at all.


> This is really not true. Only Chrome supports flash, with an in-house 
> proprietary plugin from Google. The rest, all try to use the last know 
> - faulty and insecure - unsupported 11.x plugin released several years 
> ago. Firefox is in the process of killing the old plugin API too.

Not quite true: Wrappers exist to use the Google (PPAPI) plugin in 
Mozilla (NPAPI) browsers: https://github.com/i-rinat/freshplayerplugin

 - Jonas

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