Re: [Fink-beginners] mozilla + plugins, again

[Sir T. <sir...@ya...>]

On Thursday, November 14, 2002, at 08:04 PM, ag...@al... 
wrote:

> -> anyone got any idea how to get plugins (flash, acrobat, etc) 
> working in
> mozilla?  maybe y'all just use mozilla for os x (as opposed to the
> fink/apt-get package) and there's no problem.  but i was using the 
> mozilla
> package (fink'ed) and cant get plugins working...

Well, I'm making a complete guess here, but I'd wager there are no 
plug-ins that work as you're describing. Flash is not an open format 
AFAIK, so you have to take what Macromedia gives you. And I doubt 
there's enough of a market of people running Mozilla-X11-Darwin to 
warrant them porting the plug-in for it.

It's likely a similar story for Acrobat, except that PDF isn't a closed 
format. Problem is that I know of no open-source PDF-viewing plug-ins 
that anyone would be able to port. Again, this is all AFAIK; there may 
well be such a project. If so, you could try compiling it yourself to 
see if it works (assuming you're comfortable with the process of 
compiling sans fink), or try to get the support of someone else and 
have them develop it as a package for Fink. However, setting up a 
PDF-viewer application should work, so if you have one installed, just 
have Mozilla send the file directly to the viewer.

All other plug-ins also likely fall into one of the two categories 
above: closed-source or not Darwin-X11 compatible. (Many Linux plug-in 
projects fall into the latter category, as they rely on x86 processors.)

BTW, trying to get plug-ins for OS X to work under X11 is likely 
futile. Most (all?) of those rely on the Aqua graphics layer (and 
probably other OS-X-specific things), and won't have a clue how to use 
the XFree86 graphics and/or the Darwin-only layer.

Anyone with knowledge to the contrary of anything I've said here should 
feel free to speak up on this.

Until we meet again....
-- Thorn