425666 - Support for the Web Kit plugin API on Mac

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 347511

(Core Graveyard :: Plug-ins, defect)

Description

[Jonathan Watt [:jwatt]]

Writing plugins for Mac Firefox currently sucks. It would be great if Firefox supported the Web Kit plugin API.

Comment 1

[James Turner]

Just to expand on what Jwatt said, the NP API is getting harder to support with each OS release, and the hope is that the Cocoa widget implementation makes this possible, if not easy. Based on some initial reading it amounts to embedding an arbitrary NSView into the Moz view tree, and dynamically checking for scripting-related access methods to decide what Objective-C methods are exposed to JS. Plus some work to marshal JS types across to Cocoa ones. Not trivial but hopefully relatively self-contained, though I believe the plugin host code in general has not had much love in recent times.

I'd be willing to undertake the work, if there is sufficient interest and support to help with the design and get the changes landed.