Mozilla is working on consolidated documentation for its Plugin API.
At present, Mozilla provides full backwards compatibility with the
Netscape Communicator Plugin API
-- we recommend building plugins based on this legacy API. In addition, we've provided
a mechanism to support plugin scriptability (where JavaScript can communicate
with a plugin). Read about it
here. We counsel the
use of both the legacy plugin API and our new scriptable initiative.
We also counsel against the use of interfaces that are not frozen. Frozen interfaces
are designated by "@status FROZEN" appearing in the comments of the idl file.
You can easily find these by running a text search for "@status FROZEN" in
lxr. Happy hacking!