[WebKit-devel] Flash workaround

[Michael Howell]

On Saturday 14 March 2009 14:10:31 Jakub Stachowski wrote:
> Dnia Saturday 14 March 2009, Michael Howell napisał:
> > On Saturday 14 March 2009 11:34:08 Jakub Stachowski wrote:
> > > Hello,
> > >
> > > Currently plugin factory contains workaround for flash (returning
> > > QWebView instead of 0). What bug does it exactly works around?
> > > If it is video player embedded from youtube showing just controls but
> > > no video (testcase: http://www.webscription.net/s-108-david-weber.aspx
> > > ) then attached patch contains alternative solution.
> > > The problem is that QNetworkManager (and maybe flash plugin) expects to
> > > handle redirects itself, but KIO internally fetches destination URL
> > > instead. The patch makes KNetworkReply emit finish()  and kill the KIO
> > > job upon redirect.
> >
> > QtWebKit tries to use KWebPluginFactory for _all_ plug-in requests, even
> > if the actual plug-in was not advertised by KWebPluginFactory, but is
> > supposed to be used internally by QtWebKit's built-in Flash support.
> >
> > I wish I knew how to pass the options to the new QWebView, which would
> > fix YouTube.
>
> OK, but why not simply return 0? In this case QtWebKit tries built-in
> support for netscape plugins. It makes webkitkde more crashy, but then
> again even with QWebView workaround it crashes whenever it likes.
> I know that QWebView is workaround but what is actual bug being worked
> around? Crashing? Not showing movie on youtube? Something else?
>
> Even nspluginviewer crashes with webkitkde :-(
QtWebKit tries to use KWebPluginFactory for all plug-ins, even if it's 
actually the built-in Flash support that provides the plug-in.

-- 
Michael Howell
mhowell123 at gmail.com
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