[Fwd: khtml: Why strip -plugin suffix?]

[Ryan Gammon]

Koos Vriezen wrote:

>>The last one makes me nervous, as audio/x-pn-realaudio and 
>>audio/x-pn-realaudio-plugin are two distinctly different mime types for 
>>us (.rpm vs .ra).
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>Does that really matter, ie. will that also result in loading a different
>plugin?
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No, doesn't really matter. .rpm's are not audio/x-pn-realaudio, but the 
same app will handle them in the end (and the -plugin variant is always 
used in our embed tags anyway).

>I'm tempted to propose a change in the logic and strip -plugin after
>loading a plugin failed, but otoh aren't we creating a double list of
>khtml plugable mime's and eg. Xine based player should start adding
>-plugin variants too.
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IMO, appending -plugin to a mime type when the -plugin variant != the 
non -plugin one is silly. No one should be adding -plugin to their mime 
types unless they want to create a new, distinct mime type like we have 
with .ra vs .rpm.

I'd make khtml try the -plugin version first, and fall back to retrying 
without the -plugin, where the latter is a hack (for example, 
audio/x-pn-realaudio != audio/x-pn-realaudio-plugin in our case, and I 
think we have the mime standard behind us here).

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Ryan Gammon
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Developer for Helix Player
https://player.helixcommunity.org