<!DOCTYPE html> <!-- ========================================== kroc camen of camen design ============================================= --> <title>blog · A List of Things That Plugins Don’t Work With</title> <link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="/design/design.css" /> <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, maximum-scale=1.0, user-scalable=no" /> <link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" href="/blog/rss" title="Just blog" /> <link rel="canonical" href="/blog/plugin_without" /> <!-- =================================================================================================================== --> <header> <h1><a href="/" rel="index"> Camen Design </a></h1> <nav><ul> <li><a href="/">all</a></li> <li><a href="/projects">projects</a></li> <li><a href="http://forum.camendesign.com">forum</a></li> </ul><ul> <li><a href="/quote/">quote</a></li> <li><a href="/blog/" rel="tag">blog</a></li> <li><a href="/photo/">photo</a></li> <li><a href="/writing/">writing</a></li> <li><a href="/code/">code</a></li> <li><a href="/art/">art</a></li> <li><a href="/link/">link</a></li> <li><a href="/poem/">poem</a></li> <li><a href="/audio/">audio</a></li> </ul><ul> <li><a href="/web-dev/">web-dev</a></li> <li><a href="/annoyances/">annoyances</a></li> <li><a href="/code-is-art/">code-is-art</a></li> <li><a href="/inspiration/">inspiration</a></li> <li><a href="/windows/">windows</a></li> <li><a href="/gaming/">gaming</a></li> <li><a href="/mac/">mac</a></li> <li><a href="/gift/">gift</a></li> <li><a href="/osnews/">osnews</a></li> <li><a href="/c64/">c64</a></li> <li><a href="/linux/">linux</a></li> </ul> <a rel="previous" href="/blog/minecraft"> older article → </a><a rel="next" href="/blog/rss_is_dying"> ← newer article </a></nav> </header> <!-- =================================================================================================================== --> <article><header> <!-- date published or updated --> <time pubdate datetime="2010-11-08T14:35:00+00:00"> <sup>2:35<abbr>pm</abbr> • 2010</sup> <abbr title="November">Nov</abbr> 8 </time> <!-- categories --> <ul> <li><a href="/blog/plugin_without" rel="bookmark tag">blog</a></li> <li><a href="/web-dev/plugin_without">web-dev</a></li> <li><a href="/annoyances/plugin_without">annoyances</a></li> </ul> <!-- licence --> <small> <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/deed.en_GB">c</a> share + remix </small> </header> <!-- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ --> <section> <h1>A List of Things That Plugins Don’t Work With</h1> <dl> <dt>Browser context menus</dt> <dd> No “Save Page As…”, no “Send Link”, no “View Background Image”, no “Open With Editor…”, no “View Page Source”, no “Inspect Element”… </dd> <dt>Printing</dt> <dd> Cannot print using your browser’s print function and expect a multi-page document. </dd> <dt>Bookmarks</dt> <dd> Cannot bookmark parts of plugin-based content. </dd> <dt>Password manager, sync</dt> <dd> Just remember it, okay? </dd> <dt>Cookie settings</dt> <dd> <em>“Screw you, and your privacy”.</em> </dd> <dt>Caret-browsing text selection</dt> <dd> Cannot fully navigate using the same conventions as the browser. </dd> <dt>⌘ + Click</dt> <dd> Cannot choose to open a part of plugin-based content in a new tab<br /> (like viewing gallery images in tabs). </dd> <dt>Browser extensions</dt> <dd> Browser extensions cannot operate upon the text or images within the plugin. </dd> <dt>User stylesheets / User scripts</dt> <dd> No accessibility override, like your choice of fonts and colours. No customisation. No patches for broken browser support. No “No Style” choice. </dd> <dt>Drag and Drop</dt> <dd> Cannot drag images out of the plugin to save to disk. </dd> <dt>Zoom text-only</dt> <dd> Cannot scale the text with the rest of the page. </dd> <dt>Error console</dt> <dd> No Firebug or Web Inspector. No source code. No breakpoint debugging. </dd> </dl> <p> <strong>There is no job</strong> that plugins are the right tool for.<br /> Saying that plugins ‘have their place’ is ignorant and complacent. </p> </section> <!-- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ --> </article> <footer> <nav><a href="http://forum.camendesign.com">‹ Discuss this in the Forum ›</a></nav> <a href="mailto:kroc@camendesign.com">kroc@camendesign.com</a> <nav>view-source: <a href="/blog/plugin_without.rem">Rem</a> • <a href="/blog/plugin_without.html">HTML</a> • <a href="/design/">CSS</a> • <a href="/.system/">PHP</a> • <a href="/.htaccess">.htaccess</a> </nav> <form method="get" action="https://duckduckgo.com"> <input type="hidden" name="sites" value="camendesign.com" /> <input type="search" name="q" placeholder="search…" /> <input type="submit" value="Go" /> </form> </footer> <!-- =================================================================================================== code is art === -->