Native Client in Chrome Beta

Andrew Wiley wiley.andrew.j at gmail.com
Sun Aug 14 13:00:22 PDT 2011


On Sun, Aug 14, 2011 at 10:29 AM, Marco Leise <Marco.Leise at gmx.de> wrote:

> Am 14.08.2011, 06:41 Uhr, schrieb Andrew Wiley <wiley.andrew.j at gmail.com>:
>
>  On Sat, Aug 13, 2011 at 5:10 AM, bearophile <bearophileHUGS at lycos.com>**
>> wrote:
>>
>>  Found though Reddit. It seems Chrome is starting to warm up to the Native
>>> Client (NaCl) idea, the Chrome Beta now has a working NaCl:
>>>
>>> http://chrome.blogspot.com/**2011/08/building-better-web-**
>>> apps-with-new.html<http://chrome.blogspot.com/2011/08/building-better-web-apps-with-new.html>
>>>
>>>
>>> http://channel9.msdn.com/**Shows/C9-GoingNative/**
>>> GoingNative-0-Help-us-fly-**this-plane-Some-modern-C-Meet-**Ale-Contenti<http://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/C9-GoingNative/GoingNative-0-Help-us-fly-this-plane-Some-modern-C-Meet-Ale-Contenti>
>>>
>>> It's one (the only?) chance to use D in the browser.
>>>
>>> Bye,
>>> bearophile
>>>
>>>
>> Just thought I'd point out that the previous discussions on NaCl seem to
>> have missed this part of the overview:
>> "The Pepper Plug-in API (PPAPI), called *Pepper* for convenience, is
>> included in the Native Client SDK. This library is written in C, and the
>> SDK
>> also provides a set of C++ bindings for it. Native Client modules use the
>> Pepper API to communicate with the browser's JavaScript, the DOM, and
>> other
>> resources managed by the browser. The Pepper Library also provides a
>> platform-independent multimedia API that Native Client modules can use for
>> audio, video, and 2D graphics."
>>
>> So yes, this is somewhat geared toward multimedia, but it looks like it
>> can
>> also replace javascript in web apps.
>>
>
> Is this basically the same as the Java applet interface to the browser
> without the "compile once, run everywhere", but with better API?
>

I haven't ever dealt with the applet interface, but that quote came from
http://code.google.com/chrome/nativeclient/docs/technical_overview.html if
you want to take a closer look. The Pepper API docs are there as well.
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