KHTML Plugins

[Koos Vriezen]

On Sun, Jul 03, 2005 at 09:27:41PM +0200, Leo Savernik wrote:
> Am Freitag, 1. Juli 2005 20:32 schrieb Florian Roth:
> > If you now change the data attribute of the object tag using DOM (unsing
> > JavaScript or from your app embedding a KHTMLPart) the plugin is
> > reloaded/a new plugin is loaded depending on the new mimetype. This is
> > absolutly OK, because the mimetype might have changed. 
> 
> This is good news that dynamically changing the source finally works.
> 
> > But if the mimetype 
> > did not change? Or the mimetype was fixed using the type attribute?
> > Shouldn't it be enough to notify the plugin (if it's a kpart, of course) of
> > the change and call openURL() instead of reloading the complete plugin?
> 
> Yes, it should. Any volunteers to find out why it's reloading?

It really would help if the reporter adds a testcase, now its more
a bit of quessing what he means :(.
Anyhow, there is more to it than only the data/mimetype. All attributes
and PARAM child elements should be taken into account, I think. And
these are passed on (re)loading, not in the openURL call.

Koos