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Netscape Plugin Application Programming Interface (NPAPI) is a deprecated application programming interface (API) for web browser plugins, initially developed for Netscape Navigator 2.0 in 1995 and subsequently adopted by other browsers. In the NPAPI architecture, a plugin declares content types (e.g. "audio/mp3") that it can handle. When the ...
Pepper Plugin API, or PPAPI [28] [29] is a cross-platform API for Native Client-secured web browser plugins, first based on Netscape's NPAPI, then rewritten from scratch. It was used in Chromium and Google Chrome to enable the PPAPI version of Adobe Flash [30] and the built-in PDF viewer. [31]
Since around 2017 web browsers such as Firefox and Google Chrome dropped support for NPAPI plug-ins like Quicktime and Totem that could play MIDI files by clicking on an embedded link in a web page. Internet Explorer supports MIDI playback by launching Windows Media Player, which plays MIDI natively.
On April 14, 2015, Google released Chrome v42, disabling the NPAPI by default. This makes plugins that do not have a PPAPI plugin counterpart incompatible with Chrome, such as Java, Silverlight and Unity. However, NPAPI support could be enabled through the chrome://flags menu, until the release of version 45 on September 1, 2015, that removed ...
Cross-platform Mozilla Firefox support for Silverlight was removed in Firefox 52 released in March 2017 when Mozilla removed support for NPAPI plugins, [41] [42] bringing it in-line with the removal of NPAPI plugin support in Google Chrome. [43] [44]
Pipelight is a compatibility layer that allows NPAPI plugins designed for Windows to run on Linux. It is based on a modified version of Wine. It currently supports Silverlight, Flash Player, Unity 3D, and Widevine. There is experimental support for additional plugins such as Shockwave Player.
It allows audio and video communication and streaming to work inside web pages by allowing direct peer-to-peer communication, eliminating the need to install plugins or download native apps. [ 4 ] Supported by Apple , Google , Microsoft , Mozilla , and Opera , WebRTC specifications have been published by the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) and ...
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