March 28, 2013

Mozilla working on getting rid of plug-ins

Several stories on this today. “… Mozilla is building a way for people to run browsers with all the powers of current plug-ins, but without the plug-ins themselves.“Martin Best, the product manager of games at Mozilla, said he expects game developers to be interested in creating browser-based games because it will cut down on a problem that he called “code fracturing.” Developers “only have to support HTML5, instead of many different kinds of native code,” he explained. …” Reviews – Cnet “… An asm.js optimiser can currently be found in the form of OdinMonkey in the nightly builds of Firefox;…

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