'Re: RealPlayer in Konqueror (and Plugings in Konqueror in general)'

[prev in list] [next in list] [prev in thread] [next in thread] 

List:       kde-user
Subject:    Re: RealPlayer in Konqueror (and Plugings in Konqueror in general)
From:       Vadim Plessky <lucy-ples () mtu-net ! ru>
Date:       2000-12-30 17:42:31
[Download RAW message or body]

Saturday 30 December 2000 15:39, Brian Hartman написал:
|   Hi, all.  I'm using Mandrake 7.2 with KDE 2.0.1, and I'm having a problem
|   with Konqueror.  I scanned for Plugins, and it found my RealPlayer
| plugin, but when I click on a link, RealPlayer doesn't start.  Anyone have
| experience with this?

Hi Brian!

I guess I found reason for this.
navigator.plugins is not implemented in Konqueror, and this can cause Konqi 
not working on many sites where there is a check for it..

I include below my mail to KFM-devel about subject. I guess it will take week 
or 2 to fix this. At a moment, I recommend you to send a bug to : Bugs Submit 
<submit@bugs.kde.org> describing:
1) URL
2) what exactly is wrong
3) may be, you can track down a whole page to a small HTML fragment like one 
listed below.

It will help developers to fix the bugs, and give some impression that these 
fixes [for Plugins] are needed.

---------  Пересланное соо щение  ----------
Subject: NAVIGATOR.mimeTypes, NAVIGATOR.Plugins - missing in Konqueror
Date: Fri, 29 Dec 2000 20:09:17 +0000
From: Vadim Plessky <lucy-ples@mtu-net.ru>
To: KFM Devel <kfm-devel@master.kde.org>


While debugging several web sites (see related bugs #16538 - www.ftd.de,
#10039 - www.hubert-schwarz.de) I found that there is undocumented *feature*
of Netscape navigator (and it is also present in MS IE!) -
"navigator.mimeTypes" and "navigator.plugins" objects.
I created test example, which is listed below.

These objects are missing in Konqueror, and we need to add them.
When you launch Shockwave in MS IE, it loads corresponding ActiveX component.
If you look at www.ftd.de - this is default action.  We don't have supportfor
ActiveX components on Linux.

I looks like that *scanning* list of installed plugins in standard way to
determine for Netscape if there is a Shockwave support. Without implementing
such objects, most pages will not see that there is Shockwave plugin
installed in Konqueror.
On top of Netscape, Opera 4.02 also supports such *functinality*.
MS IE doesn't report an object, but still supports these objects internally.
See testing results below.

-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
--------------------------- <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0
 Transitional//EN">
<html>
<head>
	<title>Test example for navigator.mimeTypes and .Plugins</title>
</head>

<body>
<SCRIPT LANGUAGE=JavaScript>
 document.write("<P> Let us see what do you have installed... <HR> ");

if (navigator.mimeTypes )
 {
    document.write('<BR>Your Browser supports <B>navigator.mimeTypes</b>
construction');
	document.write('<BR>navigator.mimeTypes ='+navigator.mimeTypes);

 };

if ( navigator.plugins )
 {
   document.write('<BR>Your Browser supports <B>navigator.Plugins</b>
construction');
   document.write('<BR>navigator.plugins ='+navigator.plugins);

   if ( navigator.plugins["Shockwave Flash"] )
     document.write('<BR>Your browser has <B>Shockwave Flash</b> plugin
installed' );
 };

if ( navigator.mimeTypes["application/x-shockwave-flash"] )
 {
  document.write('<BR>There is a plugin to handle <B>Shockwave Flash</b> MIME
type' );

   if (navigator.mimeTypes["application/x-shockwave-flash"].enabledPlugin )
     document.write('<BR>That plugin is <B>Enabled</b>' )
	else
	 document.write('<BR>That plugin is <B>Disabled</b>' );

 }
document.write('</P>');


<!--
//            document.write('<EMBED src="/ftdabo/zaktion/banner_neu.swf"
//            menu=false quality=best bgcolor=#FBE1CA ');

//			document.write('
//            swLiveConnect=FALSE WIDTH=137 HEIGHT=40');
//			document.write('TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash"
//
PLUGINSPAGE="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_V
ersion=ShockwaveFlash">'); -->

</SCRIPT>
</body>
</html>
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
-----

And, here are results of running this code on different browsers:

Netscape 6.0 on Windows 98
***
Your Browser supports navigator.mimeTypes construction
navigator.mimeTypes =[object MimeTypeArray]
Your Browser supports navigator.Plugins construction
navigator.plugins =[object PluginArray]
Your browser has Shockwave Flash plugin installed
There is a plugin to handle Shockwave Flash MIME type
That plugin is Enabled


MS IE 5.0 on Windows 98
***
Your Browser supports navigator.mimeTypes construction
navigator.mimeTypes =
Your Browser supports navigator.Plugins construction
navigator.plugins =


Opera 4.02 on Windows 98
***
Your Browser supports navigator.mimeTypes construction
navigator.mimeTypes =[object MimeTypeArray]
Your Browser supports navigator.Plugins construction
navigator.plugins =[object PluginArray]
Your browser has Shockwave Flash plugin installed
There is a plugin to handle Shockwave Flash MIME type
That plugin is Enabled

-- 

Vadim Plessky
http://kde2.newmail.ru  (English)
http://kde2.newmail.ru/index_rus.html  (Russian)
Do you have Arial font installed? Just test it!
http://kde2.newmail.ru/font_test_arial.html
-- 
Send posts to:  kde-user@lists.netcentral.net
 Send all commands to:  kde-user-request@lists.netcentral.net
  Put your command in the SUBJECT of the message:
   "subscribe", "unsubscribe", "set digest on", or "set digest off"

All kde mailing lists are archived at http://lists.kde.org
**********************************************************************
This list is from your pals at NetCentral <http://www.netcentral.com/>

[prev in list] [next in list] [prev in thread] [next in thread]
Configure | About | News | Add a list | Sponsored by KoreLogic