[Trac #1236] browser crashing on download

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#1236: browser crashing on download
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 Reporter:  sj           |        Owner:  marco  
     Type:  defect       |       Status:  new    
 Priority:  high         |    Milestone:  Trial-1
Component:  web browser  |   Resolution:         
 Keywords:               |  
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Comment (by marco):

 > Dragging out of my brain, it will probably be something like
 > application/sugar, or some such.  If you like, I can go deal with
 > the IETF documents and figure it out.  We may need to register it
 > with IANA as well.

 Yeah please :)

 > We weren't expecting a full blown media player supporting N datatypes to
 land on us at this date.  Sometimes plans have to be revisited.
 >
 > We'll see how to resource this if at all possible; I'll check with
 Walter on our options. The Real folks said they were contributing patches
 (might already be in trac), but they might hardwire to the Helix activity,
 which is not desirable since it might inhibit others.  I'll investigate
 their patches Monday, and see how they are implemented.
 >

 Those patches have helix hardwired, yeah. Supporting an extensible mime
 system would require:

 1 Finish up the design of the sugar object types system. I started
 discussing it with Eben on the design mailing list, but we are pretty much
 still in the brainstorming phase.
 2 Add a way to associate an activity with an object type to the bundles
 spec.
 3 Extend the sugar registry to support 2.
 4 Figure out how to integrate in the UI a way to open with a different
 activity. This is planned to go through the journal, but we don't have a
 journal yet.
 5 Implement 4 in the sugar shell.

 4 and 5 might be skipped if it's enough to assume we have only one media
 player installed for the moment.

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