Re: detect plugin

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Michael Dale wrote:
> oh by all means please implement the html5 spec :) ...
> http://www.whatwg.org/specs/web-apps/current-work/#video
> then the mv_embed script will just skip over your plugin :) as all the 
> methods that it would otherwise map to your plugin will already be 
> implemented :)
> mv_embed exist precisely because there has not been the sort of 
> organization on the client side that your talking about.
> 
> Hopefully things will change with html5... for now we are stuck in java 
> script land prototyping objects and mapping them to each plugins feature 
> set so that they degrade in a controlled fashion.  ie <video id=v1 
> src="video.ogg"/> plays with whatever method the client supports.
> 
> The idea is if any web developer uses the mv_embed script then they 
> don't have to worry about the different underling plugins ... it would 
> be ideal as you say to have a generic standard interface and thats what 
> mv_embed hopes to do while plugins/browsers catch up to html5
> 
> its all open source and all...its relatively easy to add plug in profile 
> as they just extend a base object then remap relevant js calls .... if 
> things go really well... plugin writers could add their plugin profile 
> directly and include the mv_package for embeding theora in the plugin 
> distribution ;)
> 
> --michael

Actually, I don't think that a plugin can tell the browser to support a
new tag. Since the plugins are not loaded until a specific mimetype in
an EMBED tag is hit. So I think you are going to have to keep working on
the javascript.

Kevin



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