Re: Fully Scriptable Plugins For Mozilla/Netscape

I tried to reinstall several times mozilla and the flash plugin
using the flash installer, I still cannot find on my hard drive the
file flashplayer.xpt that seems to be missing for a proper behavior
of mozilla with scriptable flash.

I use the nighly trunk 2002-07-21-08

Do you have any hints.

Regards,
Arnaud.


Arun K.R. wrote:
> Greetings all,
> 
> Some good news for those that have wondered why for a long time, major
> plugins like Flash and Quicktime have NOT been scriptable in Mozilla and
> Netscape 6.x and Netscape 7 (PR1).  "Scriptability" is the term used to
> describe the invoking of Plugin methods via Web-delivered JavaScript,
> and vice-versa -- the Plugin's ability to access the DOM and invoke
> client JavaScript methods.
> 
> Now, both Flash and Quicktime are fully scriptable: Macromedia have
> released Flash 6 r 40
> (http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayerbutton/) and Apple Quicktime
> have released Quicktime 6 (http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/).
> Both plugins have installers that recognize both standalone Mozilla
> browsers and Netscape browsers.  Here's a little more about what this
> means :
> 
> Until a few days ago, you could not invoke JavaScript commands on these
> plugins, nor could the plugin in any way access the DOM or call client
> JavaScript.  This was a by-product of the fact that Mozilla browsers do
> not support the old "LiveConnect" method present in Netscape
> Communicator 4.x browsers of scripting plugins via the JRI/JNI bridge,
> and that Plugin Vendors (like Macromedia) had not yet adopted the XPCOM
> ideas to script plugins in Mozilla.
> 
> All that is poised to change now that we have a scriptable API that
> Plugin Vendors are using :-)
> 
> Flash 6 r40 (http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayerbutton/) is both
> scriptable and FSCommand compliant.  FSCommands allow you to "talk" to
> the browser, and you can now invoke methods on the Flash player:
> 
> http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/publishexport/scriptingwithflash/
> 
> As a quick test, go to http://www.ford.de without the new Flash, and see
> the difference after you do install it!
> 
> Similarly, Quicktime 6 (http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/)is
> fully scriptable.  You can read about the exposed API from:
> 
> http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/quicktime/qtdevdocs/REF/QT41_HTML/QT41WhatsNew-72.html 
> 
> 
> Those multimedia/DHTML experiences that we were once "locked out of" are
> now available in Mozilla and Netscape browsers :-)
> 
> -- AKR
>