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On Tuesday 03 April 2007 23:08 +0100, Mike Melanson wrote:
> Kevin Krammer wrote:
> > Hi Mike,
> >
> > On Tuesday 03 April 2007 00:16 +0100, Mike Melanson wrote:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> Are there any plans to adapt Konqueror (now KFM?) to use XEmbed to
> >> instantiate NPAPI plugins (such as the Flash Player)?
> >
> > I am not sure I understand the question correctly.
> > Do you mean "adapt" in the sense of doing differently than we do now or
> > in changing to a new version of the NPAPI?
>
> Not a new version of NPAPI.
>
> Mozilla implements XEmbed for embedding plugins on X, which differs (in
> good ways) from the classical Xt mainloop method (though it still
> supports the old method). The API (from the plugin's perspective) is here:
>
>    http://www.mozilla.org/projects/plugins/xembed-plugin-extension.html

I see, thanks for clarifying.

I think we already use XEmbed or something similar for plugins because we r=
un=20
them out of process as part of nspluginviewer, in which case it might not b=
e=20
very difficult to check if the plugin can do its side of XEmbed itself.

However, you better wait for an answer of the developers with in-depth=20
knowlegde of browser and/or plugin handling (please excuse the CC'ing guys)

> I've seen the code on Mozilla and it seems pretty simple from the
> hosting app angle, too (query the plugin to ask if it supports XEmbed,
> if yes, create an XEmbed socket and pass it to the plugin via SetWindow()=
).
>
> I'm interested because I'm working on upgrading a NPAPI plugin from Xt
> mainloop to XEmbed.

Adobe Flash plugin, correct?

Cheers,
Kevin

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Kevin Krammer, KDE developer, xdg-utils developer
KDE user support, developer mentoring

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