Opera Turbo mode does not recognise plugin

[heinob]

I just wanted to state, that Opera in Opera Turbo mode does not recognise a plugin (under Windows). There is no info or message. It just behaves as if the plugin has not been installed/registered. Turning off Turbo makes Opera behave normally again.

Is this something new?

[Georg Fritzsche]

Are you possibly talking about an invisible plugin?
AFAIK Opera in Turbo mode makes plugin click-to-play via a placeholder,
but i haven't checked how they handle invisible ones.

On 2/1/2013 19:08, heinob wrote:
> I just wanted to state, that Opera in Opera Turbo

> <http://www.opera.com/browser/turbo/> mode does not recognise a plugin

> (under Windows). There is no info or message. It just behaves as if
> the plugin has not been installed/registered. Turning off Turbo makes
> Opera behave normally again.
>
> Is this something new?
>
>

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[Jochen Brüggemann]

Yes, my plugin is invisible like the test_plugin from the video tutorials.

Am 01.02.2013 19:39 schrieb "Georg Fritzsche" <georg.f...@gmail.com>:

Are you possibly talking about an invisible plugin?
AFAIK Opera in Turbo mode makes plugin click-to-play via a placeholder,
but i haven't checked how they handle invisible ones.

On 2/1/2013 19:08, heinob wrote:

I just wanted to state, that Opera in Opera Turbo <http://www.opera.com/browser/turbo/> mode does not recognise a plugin (under Windows). There is no info or message. It just behaves as if the plugin has not been installed/registered. Turning off Turbo makes Opera behave normally again.

Is this something new?


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[heinob]

Just to be clear: What exactly do you mean by "invisible"? In another post Richard used the word "windowed". Can you explain me the difference between visible/windowed/invisible/unwindowed? Thanks in advance.

[Georg Fritzsche]

With invisible i just mean being in an element that can't be seen
on screen (so you can't see the placeholder UI they are putting on
it which allows you to start the plugin) - e.g. using a negative absolute
position, 0x0/1x1 size etc., but not having display:none.
I'd suspect they have a way to activate invisible plugins too, maybe
also some plugin icon in the location bar or something like that?

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[Georg Fritzsche]

So, forgot to mention: windowed/windowless is unrelated.
Those are just different ways of handling drawing & events.
Windowed gives you a native window you draw into and handle the events
for, while with windowless you draw in a region of the browsers window
and the browser hands you the events it deems useful.
Consequences are e.g. that only windowless plugins can be transparent,
participate in z-layer-ordering and are easier to handle out-of-process
than windowed plugins.