Bug 20244 – Why does WebCore know about QuickTime?

• Status: RESOLVED
• Resolution: INVALID
• Component: Plug-ins

[Eric Seidel (no email)]

This seems like an odd thing to have in WebCore:

    // Allow other plug-ins to win over QuickTime because if the user has installed a plug-in that
    // can handle TIFF (which QuickTime can also handle) they probably intended to override QT.
    if (m_frame->page() && (mimeType == "image/tiff" || mimeType == "image/tif" || mimeType == "image/x-tiff")) {
        String pluginName = m_frame->page()->pluginData()->pluginNameForMimeType(mimeType);
        if (!pluginName.isEmpty() && !pluginName.contains("QuickTime", false)) 
            return true;
    }

Probably should just be pushed up into the default Client call.

[Alexey Proskuryakov]

This seems quite reasonable to me - this is just platform knowledge, and not something a client needs to decide upon. Platform knowledge belongs to WebCore.

Please feel free to reopen if you still find this odd.