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General updates and bool is in pointer value, not pointed to

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 = Status =
-Drafting.
+Approved
 = Contributors =
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 * Last modified: June 1, 2015
 * Authors: Kyle Huey (Mozilla), Benoit Girard (Mozilla)
-* Contributors:
+* Contributors: Josh Aas (Mozilla)
-= Changes =
-Modified in 2015 to be a push API instead of a pull API and to use Get/SetValue.
 = Use case =
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-This NPPVariable, when set via NPN_SetValue, will let the plugin instance signal via a pointer to a BOOL if the current instance is currently playing audio.
+This NPPVariable, when set via NPN_SetValue, will signal whether or not an instance is currently playing audio. This is done by assigning a BOOL value to NPN_SetValue's pointer value argument (not by pointing to a BOOL, as one might expect).
 == Mute/Unmute a plugin instance ==
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-This NPNVariable, when set via NPP_SetValue, will let the browser notify the plugin that it should mute audio for the current plugin instance. The value will be a pointer to a BOOL.
+This NPNVariable, when set via NPP_SetValue, will indicate to a plugin whether or not it should mute audio for an instance. This is done by assigning a BOOL value to NPP_SetValue's pointer value argument (not by pointing to a BOOL, as one might expect).