navigator.plugins and kparts for konqueror

[David Faure]

On Friday 13 February 2004 15:52, Koos Vriezen wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 13, 2004 at 11:31:21AM +0100, Koos Vriezen wrote:
> > A bug was entered for kmplayer http://bugs.kde.org/show_bug.cgi?id=75108
> > and it's about a page
> > http://www-306.ibm.com/e-business/doc/content/ondemand/tvspot.html
> > that uses navigator.plugins to determine if a certain movie player is
> > installed (see http://www-306.ibm.com/e-business/doc/content/ondemand/popups.js)
> > Currently ecma/kjs_navigator.cpp only looks in
> > .kde/share/apps/nsplugins/pluginsinfo for that array, not including
> > plugins like kjas and kmplayer (unacceptable of course :-).
> > So what we could do is assign a rc or directory for it in share/apps/khtml,
> > or return an array of all registered mime types that have an embedded app
> > assigned...actually I like the last option.
> 
> Rob Buis pointed me to a patch he posted in Oct last year and it does
> pretty much the above. I changed it a little bit, less kdebug, strip original
> nsplugin config stuff and no special case for inode.

I like this patch - but I think the config stuff should remain. The idea was that if you disable
plugins in "Configure Konqueror" (assuming this really means all plugins, not just nsplugins),
then navigator.plugins shouldn't return anything, otherwise the site will think you have plugins.

-- 
David Faure, faure at kde.org, sponsored by Trolltech to work on KDE,
Konqueror (http://www.konqueror.org), and KOffice (http://www.koffice.org).