[SpamCop-List] Re: [Media] Anony Mouse in the news...

[Blammo]

On 31 Jan 2004 Bo Briggs entered spamcop and left
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> Blammo wrote:
> 
>> 
>> npdsplay.dll came with WMP 7 and 8 (I think).
>> Mozilla searches for plug-ins when you install it. And then you need
>> a reg entry as well because of some media Player bug, the version6
>> player will try to load in Mozilla. One of the Windows installers
>> fixes the reg, not sure if it's WMP or Moz.
>> 
> 
> Kinda weird. You say that npdsplay.dll comes with WMP, a MS product.
> Why would it be supplied? Well, I can only guess, MS wants you to use
> the MP. Remember the browser wars when Netscape had >67% market share?
> Then again, maybe Mozilla supplies the plug (which I suspect). I've
> never had any problem using it. But I've never tried to change the
> default media player on my box. If I can see the stuff, I don't care
> whose I use. 
> 

This is actually a Communicator plugin that's usually stored in "Program 
Files\Window Media Player\".
I don't think MS provides Netscape plugin support any longer (wait, maybe 
I'm thinking of Adobe Acrobat?). Internet Explorer doesn't support plugins 
at all since 5.5 (its ActiveX only).

> Anyway, here's a link to some tests for plugins for Mozilla:
> http://www.mozilla.org/quality/browser/front-end/testcases/plugins/
> 

http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/

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