Some thoughts..
No, we have not officially put out any
information on the future direction of the Notes Browser Plug-in. Typically
we announce this as we get closer to the release, not to give wrong or
incorrect information. We do have bigger plans for the Notes browser
Plug-in which is playing a key role in helping customers move to the web-browser
interface strategy and allowing access to their apps from the browsers.
We will look at sharing more details in the next few weeks of what's
in 9.0.1 release and future direction.
In my connect presentation, we had talked
about few things which the team is looking at, Sametime integration/awareness
in apps, chrome support, other platform, tighter integration with iNotes
& possibly other mail apps...
As for the NRPC, unfortunately, we will
continue to do the NRPC transactions from within the browser plug-in. The
main reason for this is the apps you all have and the LotusScript/Formual
Language which requires core components to be installed. So the plug-in
would continue to have installed components including the NRPC requests
it's making.
-- Raj