About NPAPI plugins, it seems (by a quick look at some source code) that they cannot self-activate, i.e. at page load or DOM ready, but instead function via object embedding and MIME type lists.
It could still be possible to implement some DOM-modifying functionality as NPAPI plugin which would then be activated or used via a Bookmarklet. Once the official API gets designed, coded, debugged and shipped, it should be easy to do the equivalent of such a bookmarklet. Instant (though ugly-hacked) plugins! (What I have in mind is the basics parts of greasemonkey / stylish functionality, which could open up a big collection of javascripts and style tweaks. Those who need high-contrast, or have local news sites with horrible layout, could be very thankful.) Oh, and there's also the ActiveX dead end. An ActiveX shim (used by Chrome) has class names hinting about DOM access, but eseidel (on the developer chat) says that the ActiveX shim uses a very small whitelist. You can't get whitelisted, and anyway ActiveX is hardly a good way forward. Also I don't think it would be useful for trying a quick port of some existing IE addons. (What's the API for plugins in IE? I've built an Outlook plugin (for hashcash) and at the "API" exposed very few events to activate plugin functionality.) --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Chromium-dev" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/chromium-dev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
