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February 2, 2004
Safari LiveConnect
Safari LiveConnect: Apple announced today a new version of its Safari browser, with one change being "Support for websites that use LiveConnect for communication between JavaScript and Java applets". I haven't found anything on the site explaining this yet... Dave Hyatt's blog doesn't have info yet either. I anticipate questions "Will this let JavaScript talk with Flash in Safari?" then I don't know... one of the complications is that each different browser-communication scheme requires that the plugin implement its interfaces. If Safari *completely* emulates Flash's existing support for Mozilla in MacOS X, including any identity checks that the Player may perform, then it may "just work". I would guess, from Apple's mention of Java rather than its own QuickTime plugin, that this may not be transparent support for all plugins, but I don't have any solid info either way here yet.
Posted by John Dowdell at February 2, 2004 5:37 PM