Re: detect plugin

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Michael Dale wrote:
> I am writing a HTML5 <video> tag support into contemporary browsers via 
> javascript:
> http://metavid.ucsc.edu/blog/2007/06/07/html5-video-the-future-is-now/
> 
> one playback method is the mplayer plugin. Right now its very limited in 
> its support. To detect mozilla based plugins I have been using the 
> navigator.mimeTypes but mplayer does not seem to register anything 
> mplayer specific: ie vlc plugin registers application/x-vlc-plugin, and 
> oggplay plugin application/liboggplay ...
> 
> Is there anyway to reliably detect if mplayer plugin is installed.. that 
> way I could extend the greater html5 support (the javascript/css 
> playhead full screen etc) to the associative mplayer javascript hooks: 
> http://mplayerplug-in.cvs.sourceforge.net/mplayerplug-in/mplayerplug-in/DOCS/tech/javascript.txt?view=markup 
> 
> 
> A work around is:  if windows media is supported, & on linux platform 
> ... you probably have mplayer installed... but I think it would be ideal 
> to register a mplayer specific mime type for easy detection without 
> conflicts with vlc.
> 
> --michael
>

Michael,

This would be quite easy to do, but I have to ask myself.. why should
you change the functionality of your website based on the client site
capabilities? Also, what about my other video plugin, gecko-mediaplayer?
Should I have a separate mime type for it.. you see where I am going
with this writing all these special cases for every single
browser/plugin combination is not going to be fun. Support should be
generic as much as possible, but then at a certain point you have to say
"The client needs to do something on their end to make this work."

Kevin

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