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Hopefully this will lead other browser makers to integrate Native Client as well which would lead to a world free of browser-plugins!


> Hopefully this will lead other browser makers to integrate Native Client as well which would lead to a world free of browser-plugins!

That is self-contradictory. Native Client is a browser plugin (it uses the PPAPI browser plugin interface).


still native client is open source and could easily be integrated into every brother, just like chrome does it. This would eliminate the need for every other plugin.


> still native client is open source and could easily be integrated into every brother, just like chrome does it. This would eliminate the need for every other plugin.

First of all, being open source doesn't mean it is easy to integrate, either technically or otherwise (by otherwise, I mean that other browser makers have principles that determine what technology makes sense to put in their browser, and NaCl does not necessarily pass them).

Second, how would this eliminate the need for every other plugin? Chrome has NaCl but it still has Flash.


Native Client Flash isn't available for Chromium, which obviously implements NaCl, so I don't see why other browser makes implementing NaCl would let them use NaCl Flash.


PPAPI flash works in Chromium, scan this thread (unless that was your point). It's just that the fully open-source browsers aren't interested in setting up a distribution channel for it.


There is no such thing as Native Client Flash. PPAPI ("Pepper") is a replacement of the venerable NPAPI plugin API.




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