utils/nplugin/docs/notes.txt

   1 Notes about plugins
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   4  I have users that want to visit my pages with tclets, but they do not
   5     have the plugin. What can I do?
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   7         Add a pluginspage=http://www.sunlabs.com/tcl/plugin/ name=value
   8         pair to the embed statement. This will cause Navigator to find
   9         the plugin for your user and suggest they install it. The user
  10         is then prompted to download and install the plugin, and then she
  11         has to restart the browser and revisit your page. Very inconvenient
  12         and only slightly better than giving your users the broken image
  13         icon. Netscape says they are working on a more automatic solution.
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  18 14. Your demos work just fine, but when I visit my own pages with tclets in
  19     them, at http://www.myserver.com/~mypages/mypage.html, I still get the
  20     broken image icon. Why doesn't it work for me?
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  22         This is likely because your web server -- the program that sends
  23         the pages to your browser when you click on a URL -- is not
  24         sending the right mime-type when it sends the '.tcl' file. You
  25         can work around this by adding a type=application/x-tcl name=value
  26         pair to the embed statement, which will cause Navigator to infer
  27         that it should use the Tcl plugin anyways. A better solution is
  28         to ask your system administrator to configure the web server to
  29         send the mime type application/x-tcl when it sends files with a
  30         '.tcl' extension. Nearly all web servers in the world nowadays
  31         are already configured to do this, the only ones we are aware of
  32         that do not are some older versions of Apache.