8828 2010-01-27 12:48:23 +0000 definition of "plugin" 2010-10-04 14:49:16 +0000 1 1 1 Unclassified HTML WG pre-LC1 HTML5 spec (editor: Ian Hickson) unspecified PC Windows NT RESOLVED FIXED http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html#plugins P2 normal --- 1 julian.reschke ian ian mike mjs public-html-admin public-html-wg-issue-tracking public-html-bugzilla oldest_to_newest 31277 0 julian.reschke 2010-01-27 12:48:23 +0000 http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/Overview.html#plugins: "The term plugin is used to mean any content handler for Web content types that are either not supported by the user agent natively or that do not expose a DOM, which supports rendering the content as part of the user agent's interface." Questions: 1) What is a "Web content type"? 2) What does "natively" mean? 3) "do not expose a DOM": that seems to make the content handler for JPGs a plugin, right? 31396 1 annevk 2010-02-02 15:04:43 +0000 3) seems wrong because JPG is handled by the UA natively. 31399 2 julian.reschke 2010-02-02 15:12:26 +0000 (In reply to comment #1) > 3) seems wrong because JPG is handled by the UA natively. Hard to say without a definition of "natively" :-) 31400 3 annevk 2010-02-02 15:15:48 +0000 Right... 31409 4 mjs 2010-02-02 23:18:08 +0000 (In reply to comment #1) > 3) seems wrong because JPG is handled by the UA natively. > Certainly JPGs are not what most people are thinking of when they say "plugin", but they do seem to be included by the definition. 32025 5 ian 2010-02-14 09:36:03 +0000 EDITOR'S RESPONSE: This is an Editor's Response to your comment. If you are satisfied with this response, please change the state of this bug to CLOSED. If you have additional information and would like the editor to reconsider, please reopen this bug. If you would like to escalate the issue to the full HTML Working Group, please add the TrackerRequest keyword to this bug, and suggest title and text for the tracker issue; or you may create a tracker issue yourself, if you are able to do so. For more details, see this document: http://dev.w3.org/html5/decision-policy/decision-policy.html Status: Partially Accepted Change Description: see diff given below Rationale: I've attempted to make the definition more self-consistent. It's possible for a plugin to support JPG types, yes. More common is for browsers to natively support SVG or PDF yet have that support fall into the "plugin" definition. Really the only effect is whether <embed> can display the content or not. 32026 6 contributor 2010-02-14 09:36:26 +0000 Checked in as WHATWG revision r4725. Check-in comment: Try to define 'plugin' better. http://html5.org/tools/web-apps-tracker?from=4724&to=4725 32276 7 julian.reschke 2010-02-17 15:30:19 +0000 Posted a reply in http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2010Feb/0597.html - this may need more work.