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From: Enrico Weigelt <weigelt@metux.de>
To: Fans of the OS Plan 9 from Bell Labs <9fans@cse.psu.edu>
Subject: Re: [9fans] OLE vs. 9P
Date: Thu, 10 Jan 2008 03:16:57 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080110021656.GA26347@nibiru.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1199911579.4308.427.camel@work.sfbay.sun.com>

* Roman Shaposhnik <rvs@sun.com> wrote:

>   Well, in that case it seems that it would be indeed, all you need.
> I'm very far from being an expert on how modern browsers are designed,
> but it seems the only shared thing between a browser and a plugin
> should be set of rectangular framebuffers. I would expect the rest
> of resources to be either available as-is (audio, etc.) or be request
> from the browser in a general fashion (bookmarks, history, etc.).

hmm, just had a quick look through the swfdec plugin code ... 
Seems to be some bit more. There are also things like input 
stream, URL access, etc.

Okay, let's start with an Canvas. I've collected some ideas:

* http://oss-qm.metux.de/index.php/9forge/Canvas

> The trickiest part seems to be exploring locality for the mapped 
> rendering (imagine a multimedia plugin displaying an HD movie).

Those things require special interfaces, which tunnel streams 
through 9P. Maybe something like mjpeg with timestamps.


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  reply	other threads:[~2008-01-10  2:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-07 18:44 Enrico Weigelt
2008-01-07 20:14 ` Roman Shaposhnik
2008-01-08 18:31   ` Enrico Weigelt
2008-01-09 20:46     ` Roman Shaposhnik
2008-01-10  2:16       ` Enrico Weigelt [this message]
2008-01-10 10:36         ` Sergey Zhilkin
2008-01-11  0:54           ` Enrico Weigelt
2008-01-10 20:45         ` Roman Shaposhnik

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