This project aims to build a functional plugin for modern browsers on Linux that follows Wacom's official web plugin implementation at http://www.wacomeng.com/web/WebPluginReleaseNotes.htm and allows websites such as DeviantART's Muro to gain access to tablet properties through a Javascript API (for now only the PenAPI is supported).
This project is in no way affiliated with Wacom. But until they provide an official plugin, this will have to do.
A wacomwebplugin PKGBUILD for ArchLinux has been put up on the AUR.
The previous version of this plugin used FireBreath which made things fairly easy, but it is a bulky dependency for a plugin that only requires Linux support.
Therefore, getting started with this plugin should be a lot easier. First of all you will need to make sure that you have appropriate NPAPI headers:
- On Ubuntu you can get these by installing the
firefox-devpackage (sudo apt-get install firefox-dev). - On ArchLinux you can get these by installing the
npapi-sdkpackage (sudo pacman -Sy npapi-sdk).
You will also need X11 and XInput headers:
- On ArchLinux you can get these by installing
libx11andxorg-xinput.
- Clone the repo and run
makefrom the root. - Link or copy the resulting plugin to your local plugins directory, i.e.
ln -s /path/to/WacomWebPlugin/npWacomWebPlugin.so ~/.mozilla/plugins/ - Open your browser and navigate to deviantART's Muro to see the plugin in action!
