[Qt5-feedback] Will there be browser plugins?

[Thiago Macieira]

On Friday, 3 de June de 2011 05:08:15 Jason H wrote:
> While I appreciate the attempt, it's a flawed idea.
> 
> 1. Locked in to chrome. (A WebKit platform)
> 
> 2. Qt is too big to send to the client all the time. Better to deploy one
> version of Qt and have the whole web use that.
> 
> 3. NACL only works on x86 architectures. NSAPI is native to the platform,
> leaving only platform independent resources to be loaded.
> 
> 
> What's the problem with supporting NSAPI?

Several, but all solvable. It's mostly about Qt not playing very well being a 
plugin to something else. Qt prefers to be in control and has been designed to 
do that.

But if you think you can do it, you're welcome to start a project and research 
the possibility.

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