plugin badness

[George Staikos]

On Tuesday 16 March 2004 11:47, Koos Vriezen wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 16, 2004 at 07:11:10AM -0500, George Staikos wrote:
> > Lately there have been scores of reports of plugins (flash in particular)
> > no longer working in konqueror.  There have been absolutely no changes to
> > qxembed or nspluginviewer, but I think I see a possible reason, though I
> > can't reproduce it myself.  It seems like we now list -every- kpart as a
> > plugin.  I think this is bound to cause problems.
>
> Yesterday I noticed too a site that didn't work anymore. Reason was that
> after a mimetype check of flash, it accessed plugins["Shockwave Flash"]
> what failed. It's r1.67 kjs_navigator.cpp that is the cause of this :-(

    Exactly what I suspected.....

> > - We list KHTML as a plugin for KHTML.  How strange (from a website
> > perspective).
> > - We list libnsplugin as a plugin.  That is, we list the plugin loader as
> > a plugin, which supports all the mimetypes that all the plugins support
> > of course.  This must be extremely confusing to some sites out there and
> > results in at -least- duplicating each mime type.
> > - We publish a list of all installed kparts to any website out there that
> > wants to know (minor privacy concerns)
> > - We list rediculous things like Inode/directory parts to websites
> > - The plugin list is -huge- and thus slow to iterate
> > - Many mimetypes are now duplicated, triplicated, or more
>
> All these are plugable. Only nsplugin is an exception that it plugs
> something else (obviously needed for some scripts).

   I don't really like the idea of some of those being listed as plugins.
   
> > Why don't we add a new property to kparts that says to publish them to
> > remote sites who query for a list of plugins?
>
> Sounds fine with me. Btw, too bad you didn't react on this last mounth.

   Sorry, didn't think of it....

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George Staikos
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