Re: NPAPI plug-in use case: certified medical devices

2015-08-28 Thread David Rajchenbach-Teller
While this sounds like a good solution to this specific use case, and while I agree that js-ctypes is horribly fragile, I'm not certain that this solution can be generalized to AMO-released add-ons that need access to OS-specific features, since we don't really like add-ons that ship native code.

Re: NPAPI plug-in use case: certified medical devices

2015-08-28 Thread Benjamin Smedberg
On 8/28/2015 10:25 AM, Tony wrote: Our product makes use of a 3rd party medical device that requires a C library for usage. We created a NPAPI plugin that wraps this C library so we can access the device from JavaScript. Here's where the lawyers get involved... The medical device, **includ

Re: NPAPI plug-in use case: certified medical devices

2015-08-28 Thread Ehsan Akhgari
On 2015-08-28 10:25 AM, Tony wrote: Our product makes use of a 3rd party medical device that requires a C library for usage. We created a NPAPI plugin that wraps this C library so we can access the device from JavaScript. Have you considered creating an extension that calls into the C librar

NPAPI plug-in use case: certified medical devices

2015-08-28 Thread Tony
Our product makes use of a 3rd party medical device that requires a C library for usage. We created a NPAPI plugin that wraps this C library so we can access the device from JavaScript. Here's where the lawyers get involved... The medical device, **including** the software included with the de

Re: On the future of and application/x-x509-*-cert MIME handling

2015-08-28 Thread helpcrypto helpcrypto
So...may I know if a decision was made? element is marked as deprecated on MDN, and as stated by rsleevi, Chrome seems will drop it. Will Mozilla do the same? Do you have a roadmap/date for such change? It's going to be supported "by now" until next call? Please, consider we are *that little per