[Webkit-unassigned] [Bug 28914] Add a test for iframe shims and windowed plugin

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https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=28914





--- Comment #10 from Thatcher Ulrich <tulrich at google.com>  2009-09-03 13:46:04 PDT ---
A couple notes to add to what Ojan said:

On Linux+FF, iframe shims work very similarly and fill the same need as on the
Windows browsers.

On Mac, iframe shims are largely irrelevant -- there is no such thing as a
windowed plugin so the HTML compositing model generally does the right thing. 
(There remain many complications when working with an OpenGL plugin, but iframe
shims never helped with that on Mac, so the Google Earth Plugin has to use even
worse workarounds.)

There's an early description of the technique here:
http://www.macridesweb.com/oltest/IframeShim.html

I have a test page that explores some aspects of the technique:
http://tulrich.com/iframe_shims/

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