Re: [webkit-dev] How to display new MIME types?

[Daryle Walker]

> On Jul 20, 2017, at 7:38 PM, Saagar Jha  wrote:
> 
> I remember asking one of the WebKit engineers a similar question. Her 
> response was that NPAPI was basically deprecated, and she suggested writing a 
> plugin in that intercepted links and displayed its own UI when necessary.

What kind of plug-in? One still using NPAPI? Some other format?

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Re: [webkit-dev] How to display new MIME types?

[Saagar Jha]

I remember asking one of the WebKit engineers a similar question. Her response 
was that NPAPI was basically deprecated, and she suggested writing a plugin in 
that intercepted links and displayed its own UI when necessary.

Saagar Jha

> On Jul 20, 2017, at 15:50, Daryle Walker  wrote:
> 
> [I originally had this on the WebKit development list first.]
> 
>> On Jul 18, 2017, at 3:31 PM, Daryle Walker  wrote:
>> 
>> [I’m not sure this is the right forum.]
>> 
>> If I want Safari for Mac to display a new MIME type, how do I do it? I know 
>> there used to be an Apple-custom API for this, but it was deprecated for 
>> classic Netscape plug-ins long ago. However, those NPAPI plug-ins have been 
>> deprecated themselves across platforms for many years. There are the newest 
>> Safari extensions, which are versions of Apple’s app-extensions API, but 
>> those only do JavaScript modifications and such, and don’t cover new types 
>> (I think). Am I completely out of luck now? Can I still try NPAPI?
> 
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> Daryle Walker
> Mac, Internet, and Video Game Junkie
> darylew AT mac DOT com 
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Re: [webkit-dev] How to display new MIME types?

[Daryle Walker]

[I originally had this on the WebKit development list first.]

> On Jul 18, 2017, at 3:31 PM, Daryle Walker  wrote:
> 
> [I’m not sure this is the right forum.]
> 
> If I want Safari for Mac to display a new MIME type, how do I do it? I know 
> there used to be an Apple-custom API for this, but it was deprecated for 
> classic Netscape plug-ins long ago. However, those NPAPI plug-ins have been 
> deprecated themselves across platforms for many years. There are the newest 
> Safari extensions, which are versions of Apple’s app-extensions API, but 
> those only do JavaScript modifications and such, and don’t cover new types (I 
> think). Am I completely out of luck now? Can I still try NPAPI?

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Daryle Walker
Mac, Internet, and Video Game Junkie
darylew AT mac DOT com 

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