November 2011
Intermediate to advanced
320 pages
10h 18m
English
The boring job of rendering documents is a well-established role for browser plug-ins, but several ambitious vendors go well beyond this paradigm. The aim of some plug-ins is simply to displace HTML and JavaScript by providing alternative, more featured platforms for building interactive web applications. That reasoning is not completely without merit: Browsers have long lacked in performance, in graphics capabilities, and in multimedia codecs, stifling some potential uses of the Web. Reliance on plug-ins is a reasonable short-term way to make a difference. On the flip side, when proprietary, patent- and copyright-encumbered plug-ins are promoted as the ultimate way to build an online ecosystem, without any ...
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