First let me say that I am a developer and a user of plugins (mozilla and otherwise). My company builds linux-based multimedia devices, and has started to mozilla/gecko as a basis. The new mozilla plugin API seems to be a step in the right direction technology-wise but a wrong move practically - and one of factors that is going to make mozilla adoption by any other than the techno-elite less likely. Basic problem - we've effectively told the plugin providers to port to the new API or "else". My understanding is that there has been no effort to meet halfway. The flash plugin, for instance is severely handicapped when running under mozilla, as one cannot effectively communicate back and forth between javascript and the plugin. What I've seen in the flash newsgroups from the macromedia guys is not promising - perhaps misinformed they look at mozilla as "broken" or as of yet unable to support LiveConnect. I would love to hear otherwise, but it would seem that their porting efforts are in a holding pattern (?) As ugly as it may be I would suggest that we build a NS4.x compatible LiveConnect interface. This will buy us time. I would be willing to participate in such an effort as getting these plugins functional is very important to me. --- Jonathan Shore CTO E-Publishing Group Inc (Japan) Sent via Deja.com http://www.deja.com/
