Anyway, I'm focusing my energies on getting a Mac OS/X (Intel) NPAPI plugin (npruntime to be exact) version working with Safari and Firefox. Although the documentation and number of working samples for scriptable plugins on the Mac is pathetic, after lots of experimenting and trial and (mostly) error, there seems to be enough info for me to combine all the pieces together into a working plugin.
Getting the plumbing working on different platforms has never been one of my favorite development pastimes - personally I find everything that requires a lot of guesswork and trying different stuff until you find something that works quite boring. I guess that's why I never enjoyed adventure games or reverse engineering. For me the creative juices start flowing only after the OS specific plumbing has been completed - and that is why I'm full of anticipation to start implementing new and exciting JNEXT plugins once the Mac port is done.
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( 3 / 43 )Too many other important tasks have been piling up which means I have to let go of JNEXT for a bit. My hope is to complete the Mac OS/X port and add some very useful plugins + a quick financial analysis sample after I get back to it. If anyone wishes to continue the Mac port from the point I left it at, then feel free to contact me (though I'm not holding my breath...)
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( 2.9 / 46 )Finally the JNEXT version for the OS/X is working - need to clean it up and repackage for the next version, but the vision for a complete cross browser cross platform framework is one step closer to being achieved... :-)
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( 2.9 / 47 )I set up the Mac mini and now its standing next to my Ubuntu desktop :-)
I have to admit that Apple knows how to create polished products better than any other company in this business. From the hardware to the software, usability and elegance are very prominent.
Anyway - I've been chasing deadlines and immersed in work the past couple of months and its probably going to stay that way for another few weeks, so in the meantime, not much work has been done in the JNEXT front. I've began to look into what it would take to convert it to the OS/X platform and is seems I already have enough to go on to start the process, but as I've mentioned, it will take another month or two.
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( 3.1 / 43 )JNEXT support for the Mac OS/X just got a bit closer - I should receive a Mac in a couple of weeks and will start the learning curve understanding what goes where in order to port the Linux sources to their Mach counterparts.
Haven't made much progress on the external scriptiing languages support yet as I've had a lot of work to complete in my everyday development work. Hope to return to it in the next couple of weeks.
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