On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 11:28 AM, Drew Wilson<[email protected]> wrote:
> I've been starting to lean in this direction as well. The problem is that
> extensions are currently not cross-platform and would require separate
> implementations for each platform.

Just to clarify, you really mean cross-browser, right? Chrome and
Firefox extensions are both cross-platform (in the OS sense).

> And in many cases the extension delivery
> mechanism is under the control of an arbitrary third party (i.e. Google,
> Mozilla, Apple, etc) who has control over which extensions can be hosted,
> which is not particularly "open-web"-by.

That isn't true. In the case of both Chrome and Firefox, extensions
can be installed from anywhere on the web, though it is true that
there are additional UI roadblocks for the case of installing from an
untrusted source.

- a

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