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Don - you had several plugins available from launch - Flash, etc. How'd you do that without tipping your hand?



Safari implements NPAPI [1] and could probably reuse any NPAPI plugin that existed on OS X at the time right off the bat.

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NPAPI


They were simply using the standard OSX browser plugins (the same Mozilla, Camino and IE used at the time).




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