Re: Intent to Unship: Fake Plugins

2019-02-21 Thread Kyle Machulis
I talked to peterv about the pdf.js issues this morning, and the general consensus is that fake plugins were seen as "a way" to fix those issues but not a definite solution. Also, it had been for a while since any of that was even discussed and no one had approached the problem, so removing fake pl

Re: Intent to Unship: Fake Plugins

2019-02-21 Thread Boris Zbarsky
On 2/21/19 3:44 PM, Kyle Machulis wrote: and Pdf.js is still shipping as a stream handler for the time being. Note that there are a bunch of issues with that (e.g. around window.print()), which we were hoping fake plugins would solve. If that plan has been abandoned, it might be worth findin

Intent to Unship: Fake Plugins

2019-02-21 Thread Kyle Machulis
Metabug: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1529133 Fake plugins are JS plugins that render as a document instead of a plugin, but still live in the general area of plugins (loading through object/embed elements in nsObjectLoadingContent, having plugin tags, etc). They were original crea