Better Docs for Installing Plugins

[mgifford]

On this page here:
https://wet-boew.github.io/wet-boew/docs/ref/plugins-en.html

There should be good docs on how to install plugins. I'm really not certain where this is at the moment (and I'm certainly not new to WxT).

[LaurentGoderre]

What do you mean by "installing" plugins?

[mgifford]

We're trying to debug a video issue. It worked in the old version of WET, but not the new one.

Plugins are generally extras & not includes, but looks like we'll have to look elsewhere to understand why this isn't loading:
https://wet-boew.github.io/wet-boew/docs/ref/multimedia/multimedia-en.html

Better docs is always useful though. Even stating, these plugins come with the default WxT.

[ghost]

The video page is working fine: https://wet-boew.github.io/wet-boew/demos/multimedia/multimedia-en.html this is WET v4.

If your looking for old browsers (IE8 and IE9 for example) support that was pulled out some time ago. See Issue 7765

Also when updating to WET v4 your class name or JS trigger calls have changed. You can compare with the old WET here: http://wet-boew.github.io/wet-boew-legacy/v3.1/docs/ref/multimedia/multimedia-en.html

[LaurentGoderre]

@mgifford in WET4, all the plugins are loaded all the time so I am not sure what your are refering to. ANd when you say old version of WET, do you mean WET3?

[mgifford]

Yes.. I'm asking on behalf of one of my team who has been investigating this. It's a WET3 to WET4 upgrade.

[LaurentGoderre]

Do they have markup I can look at? It's probably a markup issue causing it.

[LaurentGoderre]

Did they follow this? https://wet-boew.github.io/wet-boew/docs/ref/multimedia/multimedia-en.html

[mgifford]

It isn't where they started. They are happy with things now, thanks! He ended up needing to just change some HTML class names.

[duboisp]

@mgifford it is possible to create your own WET4 plugin by inserting them after the wet-boew.min.js script at the end of your html.

[mgifford]

Ok, so if we go back to https://wet-boew.github.io/wet-boew/docs/ref/plugins-en.html

Can we not extend the paragraph at the top to say:

A WET plugin provides various types of functionality useful to a website and provided by calling the function in the class attribute of an HTML tag. All of the plugins below are included with the default package. You can create your own WET4 plugins by inserting them after the wet-boew.min.js script.

This way it addresses what is included & also how to extend it.

[LaurentGoderre]

WET4 isn't great for extending though. It is something I hope we address in the next version though

[mgifford]

That's rather annoying.. But even stating this in that header would be useful knowledge. Letting folks know it is possible, but it won't be easy.

[duboisp]

Thansk for the suggestion @mgifford, I will work on a text to be added in the Getting Started / Contribution guidelines.

[mgifford]

Excellent.. Thanks @duboisp

[duboisp]

Instruction on how to use your own plugin with WET - http://wet-boew.github.io/wet-boew/docs/ref/plugins-en.html

Quick tutorial on how to create a WET plugin - http://wet-boew.github.io/wet-boew/demos/helloworld/helloworld-en.html

[RobJohnston]

Thanks @duboisp! I dug into plugins a couple months ago and noticed that there were at least 3 distinct styles within the existing ones. It will be good to have a reference implementation.