Mikel Artetxe <[email protected]> writes: > On Wed, Mar 13, 2013 at 9:40 AM, Mikel L. Forcada > <[email protected]> wrote: > > Apertiumers, > here's my idea #6: > > (6) Write an offline Apertium plugin for Firefox or Chromium, if > they > can launch Java plugins, based on apertium-caffeine but capable of > dealing with HTML. > > Not sure if it is feasible. > > > I basically know nothing about plugin development for web browsers, > but Mozilla's own documentation says that "The DOM java object has > been removed in Gecko 15.0 ((Firefox 15.0 / Thunderbird 15.0 / > SeaMonkey 2.12). For this and other reasons, you should not write > extensions that use Java code."[1]. As for Chrome, it seems that Java > isn't supported for plugin development neither[2]. Note that, in both > cases, compiling Java to JavaScript wouldn't probably be a viable > solution in our case because of performance.
In which case you might as well compile the C++ to JavaScript: https://github.com/kripken/emscripten#readme ;) > In any case, what's the point of having an offline plugin for a web > browser? If you are surfing the web, it's obvious that you have an > Internet connection, so an online plugin could do the same job without > any problem... 1. You don't have to send everything you read to a third party 2. No run-time dependencies except a web browser would be awesome (But I agree, it's not _that_ much of a use case.) -- Kevin Brubeck Unhammer GPG: 0x766AC60C ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Everyone hates slow websites. So do we. Make your web apps faster with AppDynamics Download AppDynamics Lite for free today: http://p.sf.net/sfu/appdyn_d2d_mar _______________________________________________ Apertium-stuff mailing list [email protected] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/apertium-stuff
