ports/63079: Maintainer update: Update www/opera-devel to 7.50 Preview 2 (20040218)

[Marc van Woerkom]

The following reply was made to PR ports/63079; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: "Marc van Woerkom" <marc.vanwoerkom at fernuni-hagen.de>
To: avleeuwen at piwebs.com
Cc: freebsd-gnats-submit at freebsd.org
Subject: Re: ports/63079: Maintainer update: Update www/opera-devel to 7.50 Preview 2 (20040218)
Date: Sun, 22 Feb 2004 00:31:10 +0100

 On Sat, 21 Feb 2004 22:58:30 +0100, Arjan van Leeuwen  
 <avleeuwen at piwebs.com> wrote:
 
 >> I would love to do that. But I have some open questions:
 >>
 >> - Does Opera adhere to some Netscape plugin spec,
 >>    or something unique?
 >
 > Opera uses Netscape plugins, although it calls Java directly (no Netscape
 > plugin).
 
 What I lack is Java Applet and Java Webstart.
 
 Webstart is some external program, I don't know if it is already
 ported in the diabolo release.
 
 But to display an applet would need intimate cooperation with
 the browser, ie. some plugin, or am I wrong here?
 
 
 >> - Is the FreeBSD version enabled to add plugins?
 >
 > Yes, but it doesn't work on 5.x systems.
 
 Are the binary formats or libs significantly different?
 
 
 > See the www/linuxpluginwrapper port. Opera can only use this on 4.x. I'm  
 > not running 4.x myself, but I've been told that you can run Flash in  
 > Opera on 4.x
 
 Ah thanks for that hint.
 
 
 > For this to work on 5.x, Opera needs to do a 5.x build. This may happen
 > soon :).
 
 Cool.
 
 
 > The Opera team knows of the problems with plugins in FreeBSD, and it's
 > definitely on the TODO list.
 
 Where could I put in useful work?
 
 Regards,
 Marc