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After doing those 3D demos, I was tasked with porting Rodney Dawes’ work on NPAPI plugins for WebKit/Gtk to QtWebKit. It wasn’t that easy as many plugins assume they’re being loaded by Mozilla, and some depend on Gtk or XPCOM being present. But after a few weeks of work and a lot of help, I finally got Flash working on both ports:

The plugin work landed on r32766, while I was on vacation and away from the keyboard, so I just found out this morning reading Marco Barisione’s blog. So a lot of thanks to everyone who helped getting this working: My coworkers at Collabora, Alp Toker and Simon Haussman who reviewed the patch, Rodney Dawes who did the original code and everyone on bug #14750 for a lot of comments, help and support.

There’s still a lot of work to be done, though: Support for windowless plugins, Xt plugins on the Qt port, plugins that ask questions before having created a view like Acrobat Reader… But I think that now that we have the basic support in trunk, other projects will be able to test their NPAPI plugins on WebKit and catch those Mozilla-dependencies bugs.