SRL Archive - RuneScape News and General

I would just like to share something I've found after villavu's "reset?" or were we "attacked?"

I browsed my e-mails(which I never do) earlier and came across a Runescape e-mail showing this:
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So I clicked on the 'More Info' tab and was linked to this:
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Apparently, according to this post in the Chrome blog, Chrome have already phased out Netscape Plug-in API (NPAPI) since 2014, but whitelisted some plugins that are being used by more than 5% of the users:

1. Silverlight (launched by 15% of Chrome users last month)
2. Unity (9.1%)
3. Google Earth (9.1%)
4. Java (8.9%) *
5. Google Talk (8.7%)
6. Facebook Video (6.0%)

And so now, they've already removed the Java-plugin on Chrome, as per what the Runescape alert said so.

And there's also this statement that I saw on the blog. "Mozilla plans to make all plug-ins except the current version of Flash click-to-play by default." This actually doesn't only affect RS but also other websites such as some online-banking sites etc.
(FF's next..Is this a stalemate for those guys who play in their browsers?)

On a side note:
Could this be why Runescape's developing the NXT Client?(Probably not)

Anyway, thank you for reading!

Have a good one.:norris:

-Renz

From: renzanity

On a side note:
Could this be why Runescape's developing the NXT Client?(Probably not)

The removal of browsers supporting java has had an impact on the NXT client priority, I've seen some screenshots of the NXT client and looks alright, will be a big change in graphics from what I can see.

From: Justin
The removal of browsers supporting java has had an impact on the NXT client priority, I've seen some screenshots of the NXT client and looks alright, will be a big change in graphics from what I can see.

I see, I haven't looked into the NXT client's development yet, but after seeing the amount of concerns raised in this forum, I do think that the future of Runescape, graphics-wise, would be a phenomenal change. I am starting to feel that Cabal etc. vibe at the preview pics I've seen.

Most people don't play RuneScape from the browser anymore, and the plugin is a huge security flaw anyway.

It' about time they phased it out of the browser world.

Wait really? Do people not play in browser anymore? I've never stopped playing in browser!

Well, back in the day I also used to play in browser, but I really like the RS client, so I don't use browser anymore. Thankfully this won't affect me