Hi all Dann (see below) had a query about the MimeType objects returned by NavigatorPlugins.mimeTypes. Does anyone here have any advice about dealing with those?
Chris Mills Senior tech writer || Mozilla developer.mozilla.org || MDN cmi...@mozilla.com || @chrisdavidmills Begin forwarded message: > From: dann <d...@bentobox.net> > Subject: Intro email > Date: 3 May 2014 04:10:55 BST > To: cmi...@mozilla.com > > Hi Chris, > > It was lovely meeting you at FITC and sitting next to you over speaker's > dinner. > > Here's that page I mentioned that has external links which now go to a domain > squatter: > https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/NavigatorPlugins.mimeTypes > > In Chrome, at least, those mime type objects behave in a terribly strange > fashion. I haven't found anyone who can describe it sensibly, but they seem > to generate a new object on every access, which means if you're trying to > walk the tree without going in a loop you'll have to write a special case for > them, because there's no way to detect that you have seen it before. > > I'd love to get the straight dope from the horse's mouth though, so if you > learn anything interesting about them please do pass it along! > > Thanks, > > Dann Toliver > http://bentomiso.com > http://bentobox.net > http://daimio.org _______________________________________________ dev-platform mailing list dev-platform@lists.mozilla.org https://lists.mozilla.org/listinfo/dev-platform
