Re: [elinks-users] Embedded flash

On Wed, May 16, 2007 at 11:48:29AM -0700, Yan Seiner wrote:
> Yan Seiner wrote:
> > Looking through the code, elinks creates a link to the flash animation, 
> > which has to be clicked.
> >
> > What I need is for elinks to automagically follow that link and launch 
> > the player.
> >
> > Any way to do that within the framework of elinks?
> >   
> So I'm having this conversation with myself - but I've moved it to the 
> -dev list.  :-)
> 
> What I really need to figure out is how to automagically launch 
> applications for specific mime types, rather than just creating links 
> for them.

You can use browser scripting eg. Lua to rewrite HTML.
Instead of <object>...</object> use
<meta http-equiv="Refresh" content="0; URL">,
where URL is the URL to your movie. The above is not correct syntax for
refresh, but should work.
 
> Also, I need to figure out how to emulate AJAX - I need to continuously 
> refresh a specific field in a form via http: queries.  Where do I begin 
> to look?

I have no idea here.

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Witek