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Comment: Re:I'm confused here (Score 1) 127

by darinf on Sunday August 28, 2011 @10:09PM (#37238394) Attached to: Google Is Grooming Chrome As a Game Platform

It is not that Pepper is limited to the performance of HTML5. Rather, Pepper is limited to the same security restrictions as HTML5. There is a compatible security model for NaCl and JS. That's what is different and unique about this plugin model (NaCl+Pepper), as compared to NPAPI or ActiveX.

Comment: Re:Will sites really use this? (Score 2, Informative) 575

by darinf on Wednesday January 18, 2006 @11:12AM (#14500086) Attached to: Firefox 's Ping Attribute: Useful or Spyware?

Microsoft probably won't implement this exact feature, but due to a bug in IE, it is already possible for websites to implement something similar. I added a comment to my blog with details.