For windows its ActiveX so what is for mac?

Unity Engine
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I know that window pc’s use ActiveX to run in the browser but what is the Mac equivalent?

Cheers
Geoff

2

Nothing
Browser based plugins for Safari, Opera and FireFox, not some general technology which has been adapted to be used in the browser as in case of IE + ActiveX (because in FireFox on Windows its no ActiveX either)

3

Ok thanks, still not quite got my head around it. So what is the the mac unity browser plugin written in?

Also, we use ActiveX in FF on windows so not sure what you mean in your last bit?

Thanks for the info, its much appreciated.

Geoff

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After a little digging I found this

https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Plugins

I guess Unity uses this NPAPI framework?

Cheers
Geoff

5

ActiveX is generally a Windows IE specific technology and in all other browsers (Mac/Win) plugins are used instead. In our case, we use either an ActiveX control (Win IE) or a plugin (all other browsers) to load our player inside the browser (and yes, we use NPAPI for plugins).

Here’s some extra info from the Mozilla site, I’m not sure how you’re using ActiveX controls inside Firefox:

ActiveX