206852 - idea for discussion

Status: RESOLVED EXPIRED

(Core Graveyard :: Plug-ins, enhancement)

Description

[Rostislav Matl]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030507
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US; rv:1.4b) Gecko/20030507

Would it be posssible to have API that works on DOM level ? AFAIK using plugins
has a major disadvantage the plugin-processed content is not accessbile by DOM. 
Can it work like "hmm, that namespace I could pass to this plugin and it will
give me a request what I have to do". With this approach Mozilla works as
application logic above rendering kernel. Briefly it will bring application
server approach to clietn side too :).

The major advantage would allow Mozilla platform to dynamically add/remove
support for various hosting languages (MathML, SVG,...) and allow core team to
"outsource" support of these languages while focusing on core functionality.


Reproducible: Didn't try

Steps to Reproduce:

Comment 1

[Peter Lubczynski]

I'm not quite sure I understand. JS can access the plugin through scripting and
plugin code has access to the DOM.

Comment 2

[Boris Zbarsky [:bzbarsky]]

Sounds like you want some of the items listed in bug 184746 (but please do not
comment on that bug; discussion would be better in the newsgroups).

Comment 3

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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Comment 4

[Gervase Markham [:gerv]]

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