Installing on MacOS X

[Pablo Abad]

Hi Amnon,

I've talking with Pedro about JNext, and testing it on MacOS X and
there are several issues:

The browser where I've been trying to install the plugin is Mozilla
Firefox with no success. At first, I thought that the plugins folder
would be the same as Linux's Firefox, but MacOS X is a bit more
complex...

Firefox application (Firefox.app) is a folder itself, including all
needed files inside it. After looking inside all folders and asking it
at the #firefox on irc.freenode.org, I've find out that the plugins
folder is "/Applications/Firefox.app/Contents/MacOS/plugins/"

There is where all plugins are stored, but their file extensions are
not the same as Linux's ones (.so). Here they are named as .plugin
files. But (again) they are not files; they are folders including
plist files, info files and so on...

So, there is so much work to do. I'll try to get deep into the Mozilla
Doc till find out how to develop MacOS X Firefox plugins (C++
preferently).

Anyone has tried it on Safari for MacOS X?

[Pedro Fraca]

Hi, Pablo. I've discovered an interesting sample in the Xcode samples
folder the path is the next : \Developer\Examples\WebKit
\NetScapeMoviePlugin.
I'm working to understand it.

[Amnon David]

Hi Pablo,

Thanks for the update. I'm excited about your effort to port jnext to
the Mac OS/X. In fact, I decided to invest in purchasing a Mac too so I
can help with the porting efforts. At the moment I'm busy extending the
framework to support external scripting languages, but as soon as that
is completed I hope to dive in to the Mac development. I assume that by
that time you'll be able to teach me a few things on the Mac :-)

Best regards,
Amnon