[Flashblock] Flashblock and disabled javascript

[Philip Chee]

On 7/2/05, liam321 at 123mail.org <liam321 at 123mail.org> wrote:

> I (a Firefox user) was wondering if there are plans for Flashblock to
> work with javascript *disabled* as well?

No.
 
> Would that be a lot more difficult to implement? How does the *Adblock*
> (adblock.mozdev.org) extension do its job? Adblock works even if
> javascript is disabled. What is the difference in implementations? Why
> is javascript required for Flashblock to work?

Flashblock has it's origins in the Flash-Click-to-View XBL bookmarklet
by Jesse. As such it operates with content (i.e. untrusted) privileges
and without any chrome (trusted) privileges. This means our javascript
code is treated as coming from the website and not from an internal
extension. Disabling javascript will of course disable Flashblock.

Rearchitecting the code is beyond the scope of this extension. Since this
is all open source and volunteer labour, it is entirely possible someone
out there will either contribute a rewrite to Flashblock or come up with
their own extension to do this.

> However, I would really like to be able to use Flashblock as well..

Perhaps you could talk to the NoScript folks to see if they can
specifically whitelist Flashblock? Our XBL lives in a chrome URL
and not a web URL if that will help.
 
> I had a look at bug bug 10264,
> http://bugzilla.mozdev.org/show_bug.cgi?id=10264 (resolved as invalid)
> but that just refers back to the Known Problems page,
> http://flashblock.mozdev.org/problems.html . I think this bug is highly
> valid, and should be either reopened, or re-resolved as a WONTFIX --
> with clearly stated motivations for this in the documentation (FAQ or
> Known Problems page) :-)

I have changed the resolution to WONTFIX as per your suggestion.
I'll update the FAQ "real soon now".

Phil