Bert Freudenberg wrote:

>>The squeakland launcher mechanism "knows" in which browsers the browser 
>>api works in which ones it doesn't. It then sets the parameter 
>>apiSupported to true or false. (view source reveals the "magic")
> It cannot know which browsers support this, because not the browser 
> "supports" it but the _plugin_!

Squeakland server, not squeakland image. It's a static table of 
parameters that drives the launch page template generation.

>>That makes the browser plugin work for everybody except those using a 
>>browser with defunct api (like Opera) AND behind a proxy.
> No it does not. When I try to view a Squeakland project in Opera, all I 
> get is a "Unsupported Browser" page. *Even* if I set Opera to identify as 
> Mozilla or IE! So I can't even test if it works now with my newest plugin.

Can you please send me the id strings you used?

> I have a version that might work through the api on hopefully most Linux 
> browsers. If only I could test it!

Cool :-)

> IMO the image should try to use the API and only if this does not work, 
> fall back to the work-around. If this does not work, bring up a dialog to 
> allow to set proxy settings. All this could be stored as a preference on 
> disk, but there should be a way to reset the settings.

The problem is to choose a reasonable timeout. A download call may take 
a long time because it loads a large file over a slow connection and it 
only comes back *after* the download is complete.

But lucky for us, out of the over 400(!) browsers the server identified 
so far, 98% are supported ;-)

And to be honest, I'm not trying to be more perfect than commercial web 
sites that have people who get paid to do this kind of job.

Michael

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