Re: WebKit plugins?

[Aiko Kyle]

https://webkitgtk.org/reference/webkit2gtk/stable/WebKitPlugin.html

On Thu, Nov 4, 2021 at 8:40 PM Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> Inspecting the source of `xwidget.el', I came across the following
> curiosity:
>
>   (when (memq window-system '(mac ns))
>     (defcustom xwidget-webkit-enable-plugins nil
>       "Enable plugins for xwidget webkit.
>   If non-nil, plugins are enabled.  Otherwise, disabled."
>       :type 'boolean
>       :version "28.1"))
>
> The only place where these are used is in nsxwidget.m, which is only
> useful on macOS:
>
>   Lisp_Object enablePlugins =
>     Fintern (build_string ("xwidget-webkit-enable-plugins"), Qnil);
>   if (!EQ (Fsymbol_value (enablePlugins), Qnil))
>     configuration.preferences.plugInsEnabled = YES;
>
> I couldn't find any documentation with respect to what these plugins
> are, and what they do.  Could someone explain what these are, and if
> and/or why they cannot be used with WebKitGTK+?  Thanks.
>