[webkit-dev] Augmenting WebKit contextual menus for non-plugin content

David Hyatt hyatt at apple.com
Fri May 25 16:18:25 PDT 2007


Augmenting contextual menus really has nothing to do with plug-ins,  
so I'm not sure how the conversation ended up at plug-ins.  :)    
Changing context menus is getting more into the realm of extensions.

dave

On May 25, 2007, at 4:15 PM, David Hyatt wrote:

>
> On May 25, 2007, at 4:07 PM, Nathan Duran wrote:
>>>
>> (that QuickTime vs. PNG argument is pretty flimsy) when all it  
>> does is force
>
> Flimsy in what sense?  If QuickTime (or any plugin) can take over  
> PNG, then PNG image support when the <object> tag is used would  
> effectively be broken.  Suddenly all sorts of built-in browser  
> functionality breaks.  Web sites would break.  The end user would  
> have no real understanding of what was going wrong or how to fix it.
>
> Plug-ins should not be allowed to break your browser.
>
> dave
>
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