Need testers for Firebreath cross-browser plugin framework
taxilian
Not trying to spam the list, but a few months ago I posted a little
note mentioning an open source project that I had just started called
Firebreath (http://code.google.com/p/firebreath/). Firebreath is
intended to be a cross-platform, cross-browser plugin framework. I
posted before requesting interested developers lend a hand =] Thank
you to those who responded (not many, but that's not surprising).
Firebreath is now approaching it's first release. We're not quite to
what I would consider an actual beta, but we're far enough that you
can make a plugin with it, provide interfaces for scripting, fire
events into the page from the plugin, handle system events, manipulate
the DOM, etc, and it will work on both IE (ActiveX) and Firefox
(NPAPI).
We plan to release v1.0 at the end of January 2010, with a release
candidate at the end of Dec 2009. We need people to try it out and
give us some feedback to see what we have overlooked, what is poorly
designed, what is difficult to use, etc. 1.0 is windows only, but 95%
of the code is platform agnostic, so once we get the general framework
ironed out (with the 1.0 windows release) adding support for Mac and
Linux shouldn't be difficult. Also, if someone is interested, they
could start on that effort now.
For more information, please see my recent blog post:
http://colonelpanic.net/2009/12/firebreath-ready-for-testing/
Any questions can be ask either here or on the firebreath-dev email
list: http://groups.google.com/group/firebreath-dev