[webkit-dev] Plugin Questions

priyanka gupta ahollyhock at gmail.com
Mon Apr 14 23:27:12 PDT 2008


On Apr 9, 2008, at 11:19 PM, SON SEOK BAE wrote:

> If I want to show contents (for example, Flash animations) with
> WebKit port, what kind of flash player plugings should I install for
> webkit?
> I mean, will it be Flash player for Safari or Flash player for
> Firefox or something else?
> And are they really pluggable and working well with WebKit ports?
> (I just don't understand why there are different "pluggins" for
> Safari and Firefox even though they use the same plugin interface --
> NPAPI.)

The plugins are designed based on the platform, not based on the
BrowserEngine.
Whether the BrowserEngine is Safari or Mozilla or Netscape, the same plugin
should work if both the plugin and the  BrowserEngine have followed the
Netscape Gecko NPAPI standards.

Just that there are certain rules for various platforms.
MS WINDOWS :
-- plugins subdirectory, should be the same directory as the browser
application
-- plugin should have its own installer to modify the windows registry keys
-- Plug-ins must have a 8.3 filename beginning with NP and ending with
".DLL"

MacOS:
-- On the Mac OS platform, the Plug-ins folder is located in the same folder
as the browser application.
-- Plug-ins are identified by file type NSPL.When the browser starts up, it
searches subfolders of the Plug-ins folder for plug-ins and follows aliases
to folders and NSPL files.
-- Plug-in filenames must begin with NP
-- The MIME types supported by a plug-in are determined by its resources.

Unix:
-- On Unix, the plugins directory is set by the environment variable
${MOZILLA_FIVE_HOME}/plugins.
-- Plug-in filenames must begin with NP and ends with ".so"
-- To determine the MIME types of the plug-ins, the browser loads each
plug-in library and calls its required NPP_GetMIMEDescription entry point.

Do correct me in case i have mentioned anything wrong.

--Priyanka



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>   1. Re: Plugin Questions (Darin Adler)
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>   3. Re: Patch for compilation error while building with gcc   < 4.x
>      compilers on latest nightlies (David Kilzer)
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> Message: 1
> Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 08:56:19 -0700
> From: Darin Adler <darin at apple.com>
> Subject: Re: [webkit-dev] Plugin Questions
> To: SON SEOK BAE <sbson at kt.com>
> Cc: webkit-dev <webkit-dev at lists.webkit.org>
> Message-ID: <7445C72C-FC3E-4726-8C79-2C22754B06CB at apple.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
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> On Apr 9, 2008, at 11:19 PM, SON SEOK BAE wrote:
>
> > If I want to show contents (for example, Flash animations) with
> > WebKit port, what kind of flash player plugings should I install for
> > webkit?
> > I mean, will it be Flash player for Safari or Flash player for
> > Firefox or something else?
> > And are they really pluggable and working well with WebKit ports?
> > (I just don't understand why there are different "pluggins" for
> > Safari and Firefox even though they use the same plugin interface --
> > NPAPI.)
>
> There are not different plug-ins for Safari and Firefox on Windows.
> Netscape-style plug-ins like Flash work in both browsers.
>
> I don't know what the answer is on Linux.
>
> Sorry I didn't answer all three of your questions, but that's the
> answer to the first.
>
>     -- Darin
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> Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 09:02:52 -0700
> From: Darin Adler <darin at apple.com>
> Subject: Re: [webkit-dev] Regarding HashSet
> To: priyanka gupta <ahollyhock at gmail.com>
> Cc: webkit-dev at lists.webkit.org
> Message-ID: <524BF3F7-4BDC-4462-B7E9-209E14BC863D at apple.com>
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> On Apr 9, 2008, at 4:01 AM, priyanka gupta wrote:
>
> > I am new to Webkit, but in our project we are using Webkit 3.0 drop
> > for application development.
> > Is there any documentation available for proper usage of Hashset
> > template and its member functions??
>
> Sorry, there is not.
>
> I've been thinking of writing some documentation about how to work
> with HashSet and HashMap but this is the first request I've seen for it.
>
> Note that HashSet is currently intended for use only inside
> JavaScriptCore and WebCore, not in applications.
>
> I don't know what "Webkit 3.0 drop" is, so I'm not sure how that
> affects things.
>
>     -- Darin
>
>
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> Message: 3
> Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 09:06:48 -0700 (PDT)
> From: David Kilzer <ddkilzer at webkit.org>
> Subject: Re: [webkit-dev] Patch for compilation error while building
>        with gcc        < 4.x compilers on latest nightlies
> To: Srinivas Rao M Hamse <msrinirao at gmail.com>
> Cc: webkit-dev at lists.webkit.org
> Message-ID: <646697.73883.qm at web52408.mail.re2.yahoo.com>
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> Srinivas Rao M Hamse <msrinirao at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> >      For my compilation using arm-linux-gcc (GCC) 3.4.6, while trying to
> > build WebKit-r31848 on Gtk DirectFB, I am getting the following
> compilation
> > error.
> >
> > This error gets fixed after commenting out the line containing
> "protected: "
> > at *JavaScriptCore/kjs/nodes.h:210*.
> > I have attached this patch for your review. Please include this in the
> > coming builds so that the compilation goes through for less than gcc
> 4.x.x
> > compilers
>
> The accepted process for patch review and committing is to open a bug on
> <https://bugs.webkit.org/> and attach the patch with the "review+" flag
> set.
> Please create a bug and attach the patch there.
>
> > In file included from ../JavaScriptCore/kjs/AllInOneFile.cpp:40:
> > ../JavaScriptCore/kjs/dtoa.cpp: In function `void kjs_freedtoa(char*)':
> > ../JavaScriptCore/kjs/dtoa.cpp:2259: warning: cast from `char*' to
> `int*'
> > increases required alignment of target type
>
> You may want to fix this as well as it could cause crashes later.  Please
> file
> a separate bug for this issue.
>
> Thanks!
>
> Dave
>
>
>
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> Message: 4
> Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 09:11:40 -0700
> From: Darin Adler <darin at apple.com>
> Subject: Re: [webkit-dev] KDE Webkit
> To: Andre-John Mas <ajmas at sympatico.ca>
> Cc: WebKit Development <webkit-dev at lists.webkit.org>
> Message-ID: <9E9328F6-F43E-4C7D-9AD0-F697D01A9CE0 at apple.com>
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> On Apr 11, 2008, at 4:03 PM, Andre-John Mas wrote:
>
> > I was curious to know what the status of the qtWebkit port was? Also
> > once stable can we imagine seeing this as nightly, at least for
> > Linux users?
>
> The work has been largely done by folks at Trolltech, and I think
> they're including WebKit in the Qt distribution itself starting with
> Qt 4.4.
>
> Those of us working cross-platform or on other platforms are trying to
> contribute by keeping the TOT building on Qt, using the buildbot.
>
> I haven't heard any talk of nightlies.
>
> I found some info at <http://trolltech.com/webkit/webkit-announce/>, <
> http://labs.trolltech.com/page/Projects/Internet/WebKit
>  >, and <http://www.google.com/search?q=Qt+WebKit>.
>
>     -- Darin
>
>
>
>
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> Message: 5
> Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 09:15:47 -0700
> From: Darin Adler <darin at apple.com>
> Subject: Re: [webkit-dev] Patch for compilation error while building
>        with gcc <      4.x compilers on latest nightlies
> To: Srinivas Rao M Hamse <msrinirao at gmail.com>
> Cc: webkit-dev at lists.webkit.org
> Message-ID: <9E65F206-933F-4165-ABDD-55D823FFA44E at apple.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed; delsp=yes
>
> On Apr 14, 2008, at 7:07 AM, Srinivas Rao M Hamse wrote:
>
> > --- a/WebKit-r31848/JavaScriptCore/kjs/nodes.h  2008-04-12
> > 04:28:00.000000000 +0530
> > +++ b/WebKit-r31848/JavaScriptCore/kjs/nodes.h  2008-04-14
> > 19:04:26.000000000 +0530
> > @@ -207,7 +207,9 @@
> >          // Used to optimize those nodes that do extra work when
> > returning a result, even if the result has no semantic relevance
> >          virtual void optimizeForUnnecessaryResult() { }
> >
> > +#if __GNUC__ > 4
> >      protected:
> > +#endif
> >          typedef enum { EvalOperator, FunctionCall } CallerType;
> >          template <CallerType, bool> inline JSValue*
> > resolveAndCall(ExecState*, const Identifier&, ArgumentsNode*, size_t
> > = 0);
> >      };
>
> Patches for review should go in bugs.webkit.org, but I think it's
> worth mentioning a couple problems I see immediately.
>
> This incorrectly removes the "protected" for non-GCC compilers and in
> fact may not even compile there because __GNUC__ is not defined and
> there's no check of it. And the check here says "> 4", which means the
> protected is included only for GCC 5 and newer.
>
>     -- Darin
>
>
>
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> Message: 6
> Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 13:58:38 -0700
> From: Geoffrey Garen <ggaren at apple.com>
> Subject: Re: [webkit-dev] Re: Adding Javascript object to Webkit
> To: David Hansen <david.hansen at gmx.net>
> Cc: webkit-dev at lists.webkit.org
> Message-ID: <C8E5C77D-9C05-433F-AE51-5E9161DAF898 at apple.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed
>
> > Is there a way to set a timeout using this API or kill / interrupt a
> > running wild script?
>
> No.
>
> Geoff
>
>
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> Message: 7
> Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2008 14:06:59 -0700
> From: Mark Rowe <mrowe at apple.com>
> Subject: Re: [webkit-dev] Adding Javascript object to Webkit
> To: Lee Ka Yuk <kylee at astri.org>
> Cc: webkit-dev at lists.webkit.org
> Message-ID: <7A4708FC-2B4A-4900-B7A8-65AF66B71261 at apple.com>
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
>
>
> On 10/04/2008, at 20:40, Lee Ka Yuk wrote:
>
> > Dear all,
> >
> > I've tested with JSCore/API and JSCore/binding.
> > To my surprise, none of the test apps is working.
> >
> > I don't have <CoreFoundation/CoreFoundation.h> in my platform
> > (Qtopia/Ubuntu) so I could not pass the build of
> > JSCore/API/JSStringRefCF.h.
> > How can I use JSCore/API then?
>
> #include <JavaScriptCore/JavaScript.h> to avoid the dependency on
> CoreFoundation.  It won't make testapi.c compile as that currently
> exercises the two CoreFoundation-specific convenience functions in the
> JavaScriptCore API.
>
> - Mark
>
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