Comments on: Torque3D plugin with browser surfaces http://www.iestyn.net/wp/2009/04/06/torque3d-plugin-with-browser-surfaces "the concrete world is starting to get ya." Fri, 11 Mar 2011 11:58:55 -0800 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Dan http://www.iestyn.net/wp/2009/04/06/torque3d-plugin-with-browser-surfaces/comment-page-1#comment-6388 Dan Tue, 12 May 2009 07:43:42 +0000 http://www.iestyn.net/wp/?p=255#comment-6388 Browser plugins have complete access to the underlying OS so can do pretty much anything a normal app can do... so the fact that it's in-browser isn't really that impressive. It's just a standard Windows app but displayed through a 'hole' in a browser. More impressive would be if it was using already established / widely installed / cross platform web tech such as Flash, Java etc. The web doesn't need a whole raft more proprietary plugins. Browser plugins have complete access to the underlying OS so can do pretty much anything a normal app can do… so the fact that it’s in-browser isn’t really that impressive. It’s just a standard Windows app but displayed through a ‘hole’ in a browser.

More impressive would be if it was using already established / widely installed / cross platform web tech such as Flash, Java etc. The web doesn’t need a whole raft more proprietary plugins.

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