{"id":688,"date":"2010-11-29T10:24:30","date_gmt":"2010-11-29T14:24:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/blog\/?p=688"},"modified":"2010-11-29T10:24:30","modified_gmt":"2010-11-29T14:24:30","slug":"software-integration-is-not-evil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/blog\/2010-11-29\/software-integration-is-not-evil\/","title":{"rendered":"Software Integration Is Not Evil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/weblogs.mozillazine.org\/asa\/archives\/2010\/11\/why_do_they_think_th.html\">Asa is wrong<\/a>, and he&#8217;s being obnoxious about it to boot. What Google, and Apple, and Microsoft is doing is called software integration, and in general it&#8217;s <em>very good<\/em> that iTunes, Google Earth, and Windows Live are adding Firefox integration into their software. They are installing <a href=\"https:\/\/developer.mozilla.org\/En\/Plugins:_The_first_install_problem\">plugins<\/a> and\/or <a href=\"https:\/\/developer.mozilla.org\/en\/Adding_Extensions_using_the_Windows_Registry\">extensions<\/a> using the <em>recommended<\/em> methods so that all NPAPI-capable browsers can see and load them. This is not &#8220;Google being bad&#8221;, this is Google following Mozilla&#8217;s recommendations for browser integration!<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s true that Firefox should give users more control over integration software that is found on the system, and we&#8217;re <a href=\"https:\/\/bugzilla.mozilla.org\/show_bug.cgi?id=476430\">working on<\/a> prompting users whether they want to include that integration as part of Firefox. But claiming that Google, Apple, and Microsoft are somehow being evil is stupid and short-sighted. The problem, if there is one, lies entirely with Firefox, not with the software which is doing exactly what we ask of them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Asa is wrong, and he&#8217;s being obnoxious about it to boot. What Google, and Apple, and Microsoft is doing is called software integration, and in general it&#8217;s very good that iTunes, Google Earth, and Windows Live are adding Firefox integration into their software. They are installing plugins and\/or extensions using the recommended methods so that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[244,245,243,70,231],"class_list":["post-688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mozilla","tag-apple","tag-asa","tag-google","tag-microsoft","tag-plugins"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=688"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":689,"href":"http:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/688\/revisions\/689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/benjamin.smedbergs.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}