Apollo and the HTML plugins support

As you know Apollo will use the WebKit engine to support HTML code. I understand, during the Apollo's sessions at MAX, that Apollo runtime will have a captive version of WebKit engine and it won't use the Library/Frameworks/WebKit.framework.

Moreover Apollo will have a limited HTML plugin support.
In fact it limits plugin support to :

• PDF (only if the user has the Acrobat plugin installed)
• SWF (without the possibility to access the "system" Flash Player plugin)

No other support will be offered for HTML plugins. So developers won't allow to load Quicktime or Windows Media contents on Apollo !

Adobe told that they're planning to keep APollo WebKit engine in synch with Safari's HTML and Javascript support.
So maybe a day it will be possible to render Quicktime on the flash display list.

Comments

[Mike Weiland]

So no shockwave in Apollo? What an oversite... I had hoped they would add the ability to playback shockwave content in Apollo, the reason why is the ability to extend the framework through the Xtra architecture and the ability to leverage existing xtras in Apollo. Are they giving any new insights on how we can extend the functionality of Apollo?

[JulesLt]

I can understand why they want to keep away from a dependency on a potentially shifting framework on OS X, but I hope they keep the ability to use 'attachments' like Drosera (which is supposed to be 90% Javascript already).

[Will]

What the heck... no Quicktime, no Windows Media Player capabilities this is insane.
So apollo is going to basically be Flash projector or Central. I built a simple apollo project and I tried to use the Html renderer to embed a quicktime player and windows media player and both were failures. I have been asking for information from the Apollo Forms for the past two days and they have said nothing about eventual media plugins.

You are the only person to have any insight on this matter.

This really sucks as I have been pushing this as a solution for my employer. I thought with the use of WebKit they would definitely allow media plugins like quicktime.

If you have any information about this, I would definitely appreciate it if you could push it my way...

Thanks Mario...
Will