[Flashblock] Re: User contributed FF1.5 PrefWindow overlay discussion

[Neil Stansbury]

Hey Philip,

Sure no problems, I quite understand the reasoning. It really was a 
personal hack, in the sense that I regularly went into "Content Options" 
to toggle Java and images, so for me it worked to have Flash there as well.

Personally I don't get the policy to discourage reuse of the FF options 
window, particularly in this case. IMO content is content whether from a 
plugin or not, so there should be a consistant UI mechanism to control 
it. Ce la vie.

Cheers anyway.

N

Neil Stansbury
www.RedbackSystems.com
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Philip Chee wrote:
> Neil Stansbury <neil.stansbury at redbacksystems.com>
> Recently submitted to us a Prefpane overlay for the
> Firefox 1.5 Options window. This adds a "Enable Flash" option
> in the contents tab. I fiddled with it and gotten it to work,
> but there are several problems.
> 
> 1. Firefox/Mozilla.org developers policy is to discourage
> extension developers from adding their own UI to the FF
> options window.
> 
> 2. The FF 1.5 options window is not resizable. Adding UI
> to it pushes down the bottom elements, sometimes making
> the last option inaccessible.
> 
> 3. insertafter/insertbefore is not implemented in PrefwindowsV.
> Items added via an overlay are added to the top of the window.
> Neil has a kludge that causes the items to rearrange but this
> is not reliable and if the FF developers change the order of
> items, this kludge may have unexpected effects.
> 
> Since turning Flashblock on/off is still available from the
> Flashblock options dialog, and from the Flashblock toolbar
> button. I think that there is too much downside to adding
> this compared to rather limited (if any) increase in
> functionality. Since our policy is to avoid unnecessary bloat
> I suspect that this proposed patch is a WONTFIX.
> 
> However I would like to encourage Neil to continue submitting
> his suggestions and insights to the flashblock mailing list.
> And [interesting] code contributions are always welcome.
> 
> Cheers.
> 
> Phil.
>