>  What developments, improvements, need to be made to the plugin before 
>  you are comfortable recommending and packaging it for general use?
>  
>  Am I missing a plugin TODO (aspiring contributor's guide) posted 
>  somewhere?

Well, this one is not easy to answer ... which is why I've been avoiding
it.  There are some easy ideas to throw out, but not all well-formed.

* Testing, testing, testing
  At the moment I know that it isn't the most stable plugin release,
but nor have I received really good bugs on operation.  It seems that
everyone just uses available binaries instead of building debug ones,
and repro-ing isn't that easy.

* Self-installer
  You can make one-click plugin installers (different for IE and NPAPI).
We need them in the long run.

* Analysis of minimal installation for standalone install
  Someone needs to take a good look at what would be the minimal setup
to have the plugin work with minor install fuss but still be extensible
with extra libraries and the like.

* More flexible security policies
  The plugin is very strict about security - its available or not
depending on user prefs.  Tcl/Tk was an earlier plugin this way.  People
are more used to plugins asking about extending policies - per-site or
in general.  We need some UI tool to control plugin operation.

* More default functionality
  We can have "menus" and many other commands work out-of-the-box for
even the most restrictive plugins - IFF they get reworked to be menubars
and drop-down frames.  Not as nice UE, but to have that work is much
better than the current minimalist default security policy.

I'm willing to add anyone that wants to assist to the SF project, just
send me an id.  It would be great to move this past an alpha state.

  Jeff Hobbs                     The Tcl Guy
  Senior Developer               http://www.ActiveState.com/
      Tcl Support and Productivity Solutions


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