276928 - Add Plugin: EDF - ebrary Document Format

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(addons.mozilla.org Graveyard :: Plugins, defect)

Description

[J.C. Nolan]

Please Add Extension: EDF - ebrary Document Format to the pfs

We at ebrary.com have a plugin-based solution for reading PDF format documents 
in a secure, real-time environment.  Our plugin, NPInfotl.dll, has worked with 
Netscape and IE for years and we have updated it to work with Mozilla and 
Firefox.  Unfortunately, the "PLUGINSPAGE" link does not appear to work and 
refers instead to the pfs for installation, which fails.  The current version 
of our plugin is V2.51 and the new one, not yet released but compatible with 
Firefox & Mozilla is V3.1.  

Going to the download page ("http://extest.ebrary.com/lib/test/Download") and 
downloading and installing the plugin will work, but bringing up a document 
does not.  ("http://extest.ebrary.com/lib/test/Doc?id=10039137")

In the download location for the 
plugins "http://extest.ebrary.com/support/plugins/" contains an "exe" 
(ebraryReader.exe) which is an installer Vice file and a "cab" (ebraryRdr.cab) 
for the active-X users.  There is no "XPI or JAR" files as specified by your 
instructions located at "https://pfs.mozilla.org/about/" but with futher 
information we're happy to provide other formats.

We currently support Mac and Windows platforms, but not yet Linux.

Thanks,
JCNolan
Sr. Software Engineer,
ebrary.com

Comment 1

[alanjstr]

Please see http://kb.mozillazine.org/index.phtml?title=Dev_:_Extensions if you
want to turn it into an extension XPI

Comment 2

[J.C. Nolan]

(In reply to comment #0)

PLEASE NOTE: We have had to change the web address and docID for this test... 
if you use the URL previously listed you will not get a valid version of the 
plugin.  

The proper address is: 
http://evaly.ebrary.com/lib/yale/Top?layout=document&id=2002202

Note that "extest" is now "evaly" and "id=10039137" has been changed 
to "id=2002202"

Thanks,
JCNolan
Sr. Software Engineer,
ebrary.com

Comment 3

[Johnny Stenback (:jst)]

J.C. Nolan, our users get the best possible experience if you guys can create a
silent XPI installer (i.e. a XPI with the instructions to place the right file
in the right place, and make the registry changes and whatever's needed by your
plugin) and provide us with the URL to your End User License Agreement, that way
we'll require that they accept the license and then we just download the XPI
file and install it, w/o the user ever seeing any installation dialogs or
anything from the plugin. And if that's not an option, i.e. you want to show
your users your own installer, then you could wrap your installer in an XPI
file, i.e. put your installer in the XPI file and the necessary code to execute
your installer when the XPI is installed. And the least userfriendly approach is
to make our system simply point to your website and have the user figure out
what to download etc...

Let me know what you want to do and I'll be happy to set things up on our end.
Feel free to email me if you want instructions and/or samples for how to write
XPI installer files.

Comment 4

[J.C. Nolan]

Hey Johnny, 

Thanks for the note on the XPI installer.  We now have our final version of the 
plugin ready and would like to move forward in creating an installer ASAP.  
You'd mentioned that you had notes samples that I might look at and I would 
very much appreciate anything that you have.  

Currently, the plugin consists of a single DLL file.  The license that we 
present is actually presented by the plugin the first time we run the 
software.  But it does save the fact that the license was accepted in the 
registry in "HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\ebrary\InfoTools\Preferences\License".  
So if you have a preference, I could set up a way for you to access the license 
file externally and set the value in the registry yourself.  Also, we do 
localize the license so there would need to be a way to address that...  What 
is your recommendation?

Thanks so much for you help,
JCNolan, ebrary.com

Comment 5

[J.C. Nolan]

Johnny, our final plugin w/XPI is now available at 
http://shop.ebrary.com/support/plugins/ebraryReader.xpi

Please let us know if it meets your requirements and if so please let us know 
if there is anything else we need to do to get registration finalized.

Comment 6

[Cameron]

I'm interested in this bug :)

Comment 7

[Michael Morgan [:morgamic]]

Updating PFS bugs -- nobody has touched these in a long time, so I am assigning to default, so we can pick them off the list one-by-one.

Comment 8

[Michael Morgan [:morgamic]]

Shaver, does this belong in PFS?

Comment 9

[Mike Shaver (:shaver emeritus)]

We're generally not looking to add new plugins to the PFS, with exceptions for
very popular and widely-used plugins made on a case-by-case basis (and quite
conservatively).

(We might be able to revisit this in the post-Remora world.)