On Mon, Nov 16, 2009 at 2:48 PM, Mark Renouf <[email protected]> wrote:
> I beleive it does have CRX support now, at least I was able to install > the Windows Chrome extension (of course nothing happened) but it is > shown as an installed extension. I guess all I need is a way to > compile the NPAPI bits for Linux... I'm sure I could figure out the > packaging. > Maybe things have improved, but last I checked NPAPI plugins in CRXs didn't work, and the bug for handling multi-architecture CRXs was pushed past v4. Aside from Chrome being able to run it properly, the preferences UI is currently Windows-only and would need to be rewritten to be platform-independent. The tricky bit there is where to store the whitelist in NPAPI in a platform-independent way. Anyway, we aren't going to do any other Chrome platforms until after GWT 2.0 ships, but the plugins are distributed separately anyway. > Oh... and I should add that a general Linux build of the NPAPI plugin > would be of great value to me in using with custom Webkit applications > on Linux using the WebKitGtk port. It loads plugins as .so files just > as Firefox would. > You should be able to build it in plugins/npapi (the Makefile is probably stale but shouldn't be hard to update), though you would have to replace platform/Win/*. -- John A. Tamplin Software Engineer (GWT), Google -- http://groups.google.com/group/Google-Web-Toolkit-Contributors
