Re: detect plugin

....did a mplayer specific mime type registration make it into the 
mplayer plugin code base by any chance? If not if you could do that 
quick edit for future versions that would be very much appreciated :) I 
recommend "application/mplayerplug-in" or something of that nature.

peace,
--michael

Kevin DeKorte wrote:
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> Michael Dale wrote:
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>> 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
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> 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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