Bug#377468: Plugin architecture & library conflicts

2008-12-28 Thread Leon Bottou
On Saturday 27 December 2008 22:23:13 Michel Briand wrote: > The plugin could be a split between a very simple wrapper and a > distinct application. The plugin would swallow the X window of > the "real" plugin : the separate application. That's the design of > FreeWRL's plugin and it works. Even wi

Bug#377468: Plugin architecture & library conflicts

2008-12-27 Thread Michel Briand
Hi all, I'd like to add a small comment to the last post from Leon. I agree that libXt is not changing often. And that many browser would have loaded it already. So the plugin should "bid" that it's available... But that's dangerous, and I'll dig into Netscape / Mozilla specs to assert that it's