LO as an NPAPI browser plugin host?

[Regina Henschel]

Hi Stephan,

Stephan Bergmann schrieb:
> There is a little-known(?) feature in LO that allows to plug browser
> plugins based on the NPAPI standard to display (multimedia) content
> inside LO documents.  In Writer at least, it is available via "Insert -
> Object - Plug-in...".
>
> The implementation is in extensions/source/plugin/ (which has
> platform-specific branches for aqua, unx, and win) and np_sdk/.  And it
> appears to be horribly broken, see below for details.

It works fine here for Flash. I use LO3.6 on WinXP. I can insert a flash 
file via Insert-Object-Plug-in into a presentation. It works in edit 
mode and in presentation mode. So it is not "horrible" broken.

After you have insert it and want to change something, you have to 
select it via Navigator. You have to activate the context menu via 
context key, because a mouse click on the flash activates the settings 
of the flash player.

>
> Given that "standard" multimedia content is already covered via "Insert
> - Movie and Sound..." (whose implementation is completely unrelated),
> the only relevant remaining use-case might be Flash content.  But given
> that I at least was unable to get even that working (see below), I
> wonder whether this feature is actually used/missed by anybody, or
> whether we should just drop it completely from our codebase?  (I vaguely
> remember that in the distant past it even worked to display Java applets
> via this plugin interface, by plugging a JRE's browser plugin.  Given my
> findings below, I don't now it would even be worth to try to test that
> today.)

Jave applets were disabled for security reasons a long time ago, I guess 
around OOo1 -> OOo2. I would have to search for the exact time.

>
> Opinions anyone?

Do not remove it, until there is another option for flash.

Kind regards
Regina