Chrome Plugin Replacement

Long weekend, Worked on NPAI, Chome NACL


Chrome is removing support for NPAI support and this is the only way we commuicate to Explore.After lot of reading and trying lot of samples landed up Chome Native messaging api which will work for us. in future need to have look at html5 messaging. also considering in using NACL for potrace libary.

NPAI

http://blog.chromium.org/2013/09/saying-goodbye-to-our-old-friend-npapi.html

https://sites.google.com/a/chromium.org/dev/developers/npapi-deprecation

http://code.tutsplus.com/tutorials/developing-google-chrome-extensions--net-33076

http://www.firebreath.org/display/documentation/Browser+Plugins+in+a+post-NPAPI+world

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MvKEomoiKBA#t=105

(19:05)

http://www.2ality.com/2013/06/pnacl-vs-asmjs.html

http://games.greggman.com/game/thoughts-on-asm-js-vs-pnacl/

ppapi

http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer.html

https://forums.adobe.com/thread/1491485

https://developer.chrome.com/native-client

https://developer.chrome.com/native-client/devguide/tutorial/tutorial-part1

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/21918432/parallel-port-access-using-google-native-client-nacl

https://developer.chrome.com/apps/usb

https://developer.chrome.com/native-client/devguide/coding/file-io

http://blog.chromium.org/2013/11/portable-native-client-pinnacle-of.html

Chrome Apps:

http://code.tutsplus.com/tutorials/developing-google-chrome-extensions--net-33076

https://github.com/GoogleChrome/chrome-app-samples

USB : https://github.com/GoogleChrome/chrome-app-samples/tree/master/usb-label-printer

Native Messaging:

http://blog.chromium.org/2013/10/connecting-chrome-apps-and-extensions.html