RE: [cgmo-webcgm] Viewer Identification - One Question

["DULUC, Franck" <franck.duluc@airbus.com>]

Ben, Lofton, all,


I understand your point. It is completly true that there is a risk to enable behavios like the one you described with your small javascript sample. Maybe a function returning nothing but displaying the name of the plugin could be a workaround.

However as I said, I have no strong opinion. It was only one of this wonderful monday morning thoughts. ;-P

Regards,


-----Message d'origine-----
De : Benoit Bezaire [mailto:benoit@itedo.com]
Envoyé : lundi 2 mai 2005 20:01
À : CGM Open WebCGM TC
Objet : Re: [cgmo-webcgm] Viewer Identification - One Question


Hi Franck,

I don't have a strong opinion on this... You are asking for a
'getPluginVersion()' method, right?

Ideally, those are not suppose to be part of standards since we are
trying to avoid things like this:

if( getPluginVersion() == "a specific plugin" )
{
  do stuff...
}
else
  alert( "a specific plugin is required to view this page" );

On the other hand, all implementations have minor bugs and such a
function can be useful.

I think the question really is: Should this be a documented API or
not?

I have no opinion on the matter.

-- 
 Benoit   mailto:benoit@itedo.com

 
Monday, May 2, 2005, 8:21:54 AM, Franck wrote:

DF> Hi all,

DF> A question came up to my mind recently and I would like to get your thought on it.

DF> We are nomarlizing, through this huge DOM effort, a lot of function calls.

DF> Some viewers I know provide a function call allowing to get
DF> the identification of the viewer. Then comes my question: will
DF> itbe interesting to normalize this kind of function call?

DF> I personnaly think yes, however I am not sure this is
DF> completly in the intention of the DOM and may also bring trouble
DF> when trying to put it somewhere in hte current draft.

DF> Any thoughts?

DF> Franck DULUC
DF> Technical Data Research Manager
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DF> AIRBUS France

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