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Wasn't pepper the P in PNaCl?

• Randomno 4mo ago
  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 4mo ago
    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 4mo ago
      Now you can have all of them running on top of WebAssembly, companies even pay for support.