Hi all,
Right now webkit will automatically convert some well known ActiveX objects
(flash, wmp, realplayer etc) to corresponding plugins. (see code in
RenderPartObject.cpp, mapClassIdToServiceType etc). However, this may not be
always favorable. I've seen webpages just want the browser bail out if it
can not support the ActiveX object, and display alternative instructions on
how to view the page.
Does it make sense to refactor the code, so that with some customization we
can decide whether to support conversion or not?
Another problem I've seen with the conversion is, if there is an embed tag
inside an object, converted object type will override the type of the embed
object. e.g.:
<OBJECT id="MediaPlayer" codeBase="..." height="250" width="350"
classid="CLSID:6BF52A52-394A-11d3-B153-00C04F79FAA6">
<PARAM NAME="URL" VALUE="bt9.wma">
<embed height=250 width=350 src="midflash.swf"/>
</OBJECT>
The outer object specifies a windows media player. WebKit uses converted
type "application/x-mplayer2" to create the plugin. However, it uses the
internal embed tag's src etc to init the plugin, which fails to render
correctly.
To fix this, I think we should either use everything of the embed tag (if it
exists) or everything of the object tag (params) etc to do conversion. Does
that sound a good approach?
Thanks,
Rui
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