Hi all, I'm running gnash trunk. I have found that there are JavaScript libraries for detecting Adobe Flash which do not recognise Gnash as a Flash player; for example, BBC Glow [0]. A good test case is to try to play one of the programmes on BBC iPlayer [1]. It says that Flash was not detected, and does not serve up a swf file at all. I tracked this down to the copyright notice at the end of Gnash's plugin description [2].
[0] http://www.bbc.co.uk/glow/ [1] http://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/ [2] http://retout.co.uk/blog/2010/07/19/gnash-and-bbc-glow I'm attaching a patch to do a similar thing to Lightspark (and e.g. Totem's browser plugin), but with more text. This keeps the copyright notice on about:plugins, but sets the actual description to something that all libraries should recognise. It's a bit of a hack. Apparently parentheses and semicolons are not allowed in mime type descriptions, so I had to use a unicode copyright symbol. If this is a problem, one alternative is to use "©" (without a semicolon, which is awful), or to omit the symbol altogether. Or perhaps live without a copyright notice at all. -- Tim Retout <t...@retout.co.uk>
gnash-plugin-description.patch
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