[vlc-devel] Support of events in Mozilla plugin - Beta

Jean-Baptiste Kempf jb at videolan.org
Wed Sep 2 10:12:47 CEST 2009


On Wed, Sep 02, 2009 at 09:59:26AM +0200, Yannick Bréhon wrote :
> Jean-Baptiste Kempf a écrit :
> > On Tue, Sep 01, 2009 at 07:28:49PM +0200, y.brehon at qiplay.com wrote :
> >>>> - it only works on a browser supporting this recent plugin API
> >>> You'll want to tone that down a bit then, if at all possible.
> >> Actually, we were not able to avoid this. We wanted to, but the problem is
> >> when you have a mozilla plugin, only its main thread can call a javascript
> >> function. However, with the VLC plugin, the main thread is (most of the
> > How recent?
> 
> The feature we use  was introduced in Gecko 1.9 and applies to Firefox 3
> and Thunderbird 3 and later.

"Firefox 2.0.0.x will be maintained with security and stability updates
until mid-December, 2008"

Not a problem for me for FFx... But I don't know how it will behave with other
browsers using the same kind of plugins.

Best Regards,

-- 
Jean-Baptiste Kempf
http://www.jbkempf.com/



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