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Yoric a month ago

Wasn't pepper the P in PNaCl?

Randomno a month ago | parent [-]

The P in PNaCl is Portable.

Pepper was a pun on Native Client (since NaCl = salt). Pepper Plugin API (PPAPI) was Google's more secure version of NPAPI (Netscape Plugin API). Flash Player was essentially the only thing using NPAPI/PPAPI by the end of its life.

jcranmer a month ago | parent [-]

The most common plugins were Flash, Silverlight, Adobe Reader, and the Java applet plugin, and I think all of those were in mildly common use when plugins were on their last legs.

pjmlp a month ago | parent [-]

Now you can have all of them running on top of WebAssembly, companies even pay for support.