Re: Omniweb Acrobat 8 Plugin support

On Mar 4, 2007, at 12:51, Ken Case wrote:

> On Feb 7, 2007, at 12:51 PM, Blake Garner wrote:
>> Hey Omnigroup People, are you going to support the Adobe Acrobat 8  
>> plugin in omniweb?
>
> I finally got a chance this morning to sit down and try to figure  
> out what's happening with the Adobe Acrobat 8 plug-in, and I have  
> bad news and good news.
>
> The bad news is that the plug-in is asking the application's for its  
> bundle identifier, and unless the application returns  
> "com.apple.Safari" the plug-in just displays its Acrobat icon.
>
> The good news is that if I modify OmniWeb to return  
> "com.apple.Safari" when the plug-in asks for that bundle identifier,  
> the plug-in seems to work just fine in OmniWeb:  the page content  
> loads, all of the plug-in's controls show up, you can browse the  
> thumbnails, etc.

The other good news is that Adobe's plugin will no longer crash other  
applications that use a webview with plugins enabled.  This caused  
problems for users of a couple of open-source apps I work on when  
Tiger came out.  Since Adobe installed their frameworks inside  
Safari's bundle, clicking a link to a PDF file caused a crash (which  
was yet another good reason for avoiding Adobe software).

-- adam