PPAPI
On August 12, 2009, a page on Google Code introduced a new project, Pepper with the associated Pepper Plugin API (PPAPI), "a set of modifications to NPAPI to make plugins more portable and more secure". This extension is designed specifically to ease the implementation of out-of-process plugin execution. Further, the goals of the project are to provide a framework for making plugins fully cross-platform. Topics considered include:
- Uniform semantics for NPAPI across browsers.
- Execution in a separate process from the renderer/browser itself.
- Standardize rendering using the browser's compositing process.
- Defining standardized events, and 2D rasterization functions.
- Initial attempt at providing 3D graphics access.
- Plugin registry.
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