How to support autoload reasonably?
fno2010 opened this issue · 0 comments
fno2010 commented
I found matchingUrls (which is the mechanism used by vimperator to implement plugins' autoload) is really not a good idea to autoload plugins. See #117
In the dynamic websites, http servers will use route to select which pages should be rendered. So URL does often not direct a static file.
For example, https://github.com///blob///.pdf will not direct a PDF file. Github will open a webpage with its own online pdf reader to display this PDF file. So PDF.js will not be loaded by FireFox.
But https://raw.githubusercontent.com/////.pdf will response a PDF file via HTTPS. The media type of its HTTPS response is application/pdf. So FireFox will load PDF.js.
I think there are two potential solutions:
- Use HTTP header matching (not url matching) to autoload. We can match different mediatype.
- Use DOM detecting to autoload. Plugin authors need to define DOM detectors like ftdetect in vim.