290466 - Implement "XPI-finder" functionality?

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core Graveyard :: XForms, enhancement)

Description

[Allan Beaufour]

It would be nice if we could aid the user in finding the xforms.xpi, if the user
opens a document with XForms content without having the XPI installed.

Ideas:
* something like the "plugin-finder" (?) functionality
* delivering a small dummy XTF factory for the XForms namespace with the default
build, that somehow (via a message, document content, ?) directs the user to the
xforms.xpi

Comment 1

[Doron Rosenberg (IBM)]

A small dummy XTF factory would work - we could replace the xforms content with
some HTML saying you need to install xforms.

Comment 2

[Allan Beaufour]

Approach 1 is in bug 280900

Comment 3

[Allan Beaufour]

Are you looking at this, Doron?

Comment 4

[Doron Rosenberg (IBM)]

I haven't looked at this, no.  What we need would be a dummy xtf service for the
xforms namespace, which would I guess display an dialog or error page that
xforms is needed, click here to get it or such.    I guess we could reuse the
infobar, not sure if c++ can invoke it though.

Obviously we would need driver approval for this before we started work.

Comment 5

[David Bolter [:davidb] (NeedInfo me for attention)]

RIP xforms