Re: [moz-bonobo-list] a new mozbonobo plugin

[Jean Bréfort]

Luca Padovani wrote:

> Now the other question arises naturally: is it possible to
> "access" mozilla from the plugin? For instance, is there any way to make
> mozilla load a new page when, say, you click in the plugin on something
> that is, or should behavs like, a link? This is a very common situation
> in MathML, SVG or even PDF documents.
This is a very interesting question. The answer should be yes of course 
but it will need some new code in mozilla-bonobo, I suppose.
If nobody else writes that, I'll do it when I'll be back home (september).

> > This is not a problem specific to mozilla-bonobo. It is much more 
> > general. The problem is that if you have MathML code in the (X)HTML 
> > document, how can you force Mozilla to use a plugin instead of its 
> > native support?
> >    
>
> I thought there was some way to embed raw CDATA into an HTML page (like
> in an attribute, or an actual CDATA section) and then to feed the plugin
> with that data, instead of retrieving it from an external resource.
Here is the sample taken from the HTML 4.01 recommendation:

> <P>
> <OBJECT id="clock1"
>        classid="clsid:663C8FEF-1EF9-11CF-A3DB-080036F12502"
>        data="data:application/x-oleobject;base64, /...base64 data.../">
>    A clock.
> </OBJECT>
>  
However, I could not make anything analog work with mozilla and 
mozilla-bonobo.

Best regards,

Jean Bréfort