Re: [Off-Topic?] Resources for developing Internet plug-ins for
Re: [Off-Topic?] Resources for developing Internet plug-ins for
- Subject: Re: [Off-Topic?] Resources for developing Internet plug-ins for
- From: Larry Gerndt <email@hidden>
- Date: Tue, 20 May 2003 22:45:47 -0700
On 5/20/03 10:00 PM, email@hidden wrote:
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Sorry if this post is slightly off topic. I wondering if anyone can point
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me in the right direction for information about developing internet plug-ins
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for Safari.
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[Actually, I have an existing plug-in that I have carbonized and that works
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with MSIE on OS X just fine - TN2020 describes the changes required nicely.
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I'm adding support for Safari to the web pages we ship with our product but
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I can not get our product's plug-in to load in Safari. I'm assuming it is
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because Safari is Cocoa app. and my plug-in is not a Mach-O executable].
Wrong. The problem is merely that Safari is lame. It doesn't load the
Plug-ins until you manually do a "Show Installed Plug-ins" from the Help
menu. Furthermore, it doesn't even bother reading Internet Config's list of
helper applications and associated MIME types, so there is no way to make
Safari launch your application as a helper.
P.S. This behavior is bad, but I would be much less bitter if it weren't
for the absolute lack of a single response from the Safari team. I've
submitted these complaints more than once, both via their convenient
built-in black hole, and also by posting on these kinds of forums, but no
one from Safari has ever responded, and so we are going to have to explain
to our customers that Safari can't be used with our product. I don't care
how fast it is, it's lame compared to MSIE in terms of overall
functionality.
--
Larry Gerndt
AIM Handle: SonOfTheSonOfMan
Let the truth be told though the heavens fall -- James Garrison
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