How does one go about embedding an application inside a web page shown in the Google Chrome browser like Adobe does with its Flash Chrome plug-in ? Is there an Api available to create Google chrome plugins ?
Thanks
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A:
Chrome (and many other browsers) support the Netscape Plugin API (NPAPI)
Shawn J. Goff
2009-08-23 02:15:04
There are also Add-ons now.
Nosredna
2009-08-23 02:24:02
It's supported by every major browser but IE, and even IE supported it up to version 5.5 (Beyond 5.5 you're stuck with ActiveX)
Toji
2009-09-01 22:16:01
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A:
If you need something that works cross-browser (firefox, chrome, safari, and ie), you could look at firebreath: http://firebreath.googlecode.com
The disadvantage to using a plugin is that users have to download and install it before it will work.
Taxilian
2009-12-20 07:47:21
now it's as simple as installing an extension which uses an NPAPI plugin. For instance, check out the IE Tab extension. Although this is a browser action, not a page action as Adobe Flash would be, a similar approach could be taken to create a page-level plugin.
Jim Schubert
2009-12-28 05:06:04
worth noting, however, that installing it this way will only work on the browser you install it with; i.e. mozilla extensions (even with an npapi plugin in them) don't work in chrome, and vise versa
Taxilian
2010-05-15 20:09:35