[Swfdec] Autoplay option

[Riccardo Magliocchetti]

On Mon, 28 Apr 2008 09:45:14 +0200 "Benjamin Otte" <otte at gnome.org>
wrote:

> On Sat, Apr 26, 2008 at 3:41 PM, Riccardo Magliocchetti
> <riccardo at datahost.it> wrote:
> >  Attached a patch against swfdec-mozilla git that should address
> >  at least 1 and 4. 2 could be implement on top of this displaying
> > the hostname in the plugin menu. 3 the same way adding a new entry
> > 'Play everything automatically' but i don't think is a good idea
> > ATM.
> >
> You are aware that your patch makes matters worse for all (of the 1.5)
> use cases that have been posted to this list so far? It requires more
> configuration to achieve what people want (right click on the Flash)
> and exposes implementation details (hostnames, in particular ones that
> are not vivisble to the user).

Possibly it makes things worse for the use cases on the other hand it
mostly fix mine :) I don't agree that the hostname is an
implementation detail, i think this is an important
information the user wants in order to understand if the flash
is ham or not. I see it as simplified way of how ad blocker firefox
extensions works.

> I had really hoped to get a clue about what people want wrt autoplay,
> so that we could collect the wishes and figure out a way that pleases
> everybody. But it seems noone cares enough to write a mail about it.

So thinking a bit more on an use case i think that i'd like to
have flash files that i start manually have the play automatically
bit set only if they came from the domain of the web page in order to
skip most of the time ads. Said that i'd like to have the possibility to
change this per host from the browser.

thanks,
riccardo