- From: Dean Edwards <dean@edwards.name>
- Date: Tue, 14 Jun 2005 21:25:10 +0100
Hallvord R M Steen wrote: > Dear list, > often a page needs to interact with a plugin and tell it to load > another file. Today this is of course done with JavaScript, which is > difficult because most plugins have different JS interfaces, and there > are also differences between the plugins' ActiveX based interfaces in > IE and the NPAPI plugin ones. > > Hence I thought it would be a great simplification if we could do the following: > > <object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" id="myMedia" > data="init.swf" ></object> > > <a href="animation1.swf" target="myMedia"> load movie 1 </a> > > A compliant UA would detect that the target was a plugin and not a > window, and call the plugin's NPP_NewStream method (I think, I don't > know NPAPI well at all) to notify it of the new file to load. I think > backwards compatibility is pretty good since a non-compliant UA would > open a new window for the new file. > > What do you think of this idea? I like it. +1. -dean
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