I tried to reinstall several times mozilla and the flash plugin using the flash installer, I still cannot find on my hard drive the file flashplayer.xpt that seems to be missing for a proper behavior of mozilla with scriptable flash.
I use the nighly trunk 2002-07-21-08 Do you have any hints. Regards, Arnaud. Arun K.R. wrote: > Greetings all, > > Some good news for those that have wondered why for a long time, major > plugins like Flash and Quicktime have NOT been scriptable in Mozilla and > Netscape 6.x and Netscape 7 (PR1). "Scriptability" is the term used to > describe the invoking of Plugin methods via Web-delivered JavaScript, > and vice-versa -- the Plugin's ability to access the DOM and invoke > client JavaScript methods. > > Now, both Flash and Quicktime are fully scriptable: Macromedia have > released Flash 6 r 40 > (http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayerbutton/) and Apple Quicktime > have released Quicktime 6 (http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/). > Both plugins have installers that recognize both standalone Mozilla > browsers and Netscape browsers. Here's a little more about what this > means : > > Until a few days ago, you could not invoke JavaScript commands on these > plugins, nor could the plugin in any way access the DOM or call client > JavaScript. This was a by-product of the fact that Mozilla browsers do > not support the old "LiveConnect" method present in Netscape > Communicator 4.x browsers of scripting plugins via the JRI/JNI bridge, > and that Plugin Vendors (like Macromedia) had not yet adopted the XPCOM > ideas to script plugins in Mozilla. > > All that is poised to change now that we have a scriptable API that > Plugin Vendors are using :-) > > Flash 6 r40 (http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayerbutton/) is both > scriptable and FSCommand compliant. FSCommands allow you to "talk" to > the browser, and you can now invoke methods on the Flash player: > > http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/publishexport/scriptingwithflash/ > > As a quick test, go to http://www.ford.de without the new Flash, and see > the difference after you do install it! > > Similarly, Quicktime 6 (http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/)is > fully scriptable. You can read about the exposed API from: > > >http://developer.apple.com/techpubs/quicktime/qtdevdocs/REF/QT41_HTML/QT41WhatsNew-72.html > > > > Those multimedia/DHTML experiences that we were once "locked out of" are > now available in Mozilla and Netscape browsers :-) > > -- AKR >
