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Issue 1309473002: WIP: Migrate Wiki content over to src/docs (Closed) Base URL: https://chromium.googlesource.com/chromium/src.git@master

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	1 ### Background reading materials

	2 #### Plugins in general

	3 * [Gecko Plugin API reference](https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Gecko_Plugin_A PI_Reference) -- most important to read

	4 * [Mozilla plugins site](http://www.mozilla.org/projects/plugins/)

	5 * [XEmbed extension](https://developer.mozilla.org/en/XEmbed_Extension_for_Moz illa_Plugins) -- newer X11-specific plugin API

	6 * [NPAPI plugin guide](http://gplflash.sourceforge.net/gplflash2_blog/npapi.ht ml) from GPLFlash project

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	8 #### Chromium-specific

	9 * [Chromium's plugin architecture](http://dev.chromium.org/developers/design-d ocuments/plugin-architecture) -- may be out of date but will be worth reading

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	11 ### Code to reference

	12 * [Mozilla plugin code](http://mxr.mozilla.org/firefox/source/modules/plugin/b ase/src/) -- useful reference

	13 * [nspluginwrapper](http://gwenole.beauchesne.info//en/projects/nspluginwrappe r) -- does out-of-process plugins itself

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	15 ### Terminology

	16 * _Internal plugin_: "a plugin that's implemented in the chrome dll, i.e. ther e's no external dll that services that mime type. For Linux you'll just have to worry about the default plugin, which is what shows a puzzle icon for content t hat you don't have a plugin for. We use that to allow the user to download and install the missing plugin."

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	18 ### Flash

	19 * [Adobe Flash player dev center](http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flashplayer/)

	20 * [penguin.swf](http://blogs.adobe.com/penguin.swf/) -- blog about Flash on Li nux

	21 * [tips and tricks](http://macromedia.mplug.org/) -- user-created page, with s ome documentation of special flags in `/etc/adobe/mms.cfg`

	22 * [official Adobe bug tracker](https://bugs.adobe.com/flashplayer/)

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	24 ### Useful Tools

	25 * `xwininfo -tree` -- lets you inspect the window hierarchy of a window and ge t the layout of child windows.

	26 * "[DiamondX](http://multimedia.cx/diamondx/) is a simple NPAPI plugin built t o run on Unix platforms and exercise the XEmbed browser extension."

	27 * To build a 32-bit binary: `./configure CFLAGS='-m32' LDFLAGS='-L/usr/lib32 -m32'`

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