Created attachment 70702 [details]
Screenshot of CNN website with relevant section highligted

They use "cnnVideo()" to launch the popups.
Which is defined in:
http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/.element/ssi/js/1.3/main.js
Which launches:
cnnLaunchWebPlayer, cnnLaunchPipelineApp or cnnLaunchFreePlayer depending on the setup

The free player uses:
	if (detectWindowsMedia()) {
		var cnnPassedDetection = new String( WM_readCookie( 'cnnVidPlug' ) ).toLowerCase();
		if ( cnnPassedDetection == "activex" || cnnPassedDetection == "native" ) {
			openURL = playerURL;
		}
	}
	else {
		openURL = noplugURL;
	}
To detect the plugin:
function detectWindowsMedia() {
	pluginFound = detectPlugin( 'Windows Media' );
	// if not found, try to detect with VisualBasic
//	if ( !pluginFound && detectableWithVB ) {
//		pluginFound = detectActiveXControl( 'MediaPlayer.MediaPlayer.1' );
//	}
	if ( !pluginFound && detectWMPSupport() ) {
		pluginFound = true;
	}
	return pluginFound;
}

Changing the plugin name gets us further (bug 349014), to a warning that says:
"We were unable to determine the version of Windows Media Player installed."

Carrying on works fine. I think the warning is because we don't support ActiveX:
// Taken from Netscape's Devedge Site
//http://devedge-temp.mozilla.org/viewsource/2003/windows-media-in-netscape/index_en.html
function detectWMPSupport(){

    var wmp64 = "MediaPlayer.MediaPlayer.1";
    var wmp7 = "WMPlayer.OCX.7";
    if((window.ActiveXObject && navigator.userAgent.indexOf('Windows') != -1) || window.GeckoActiveXObject)
    {
        if(createActiveXObject(wmp7)){ 
            return true;

        }else{
            if(createActiveXObject(wmp64)){
                return true;
            }else{
                return false;
            }
        }
    }else{ 
        return false;
    }
}

which I'm not sure we can fake. Christian, ideas?

Created attachment 70704 [details]
detect.exclude.html

The HTML just before we get the warning.

This is the web page just before we get to the warning. From the code, you can see that we would either need ActiveX support, or have "Mac" in the platform, neither of which we can do.

You can use this as a work-around in the meanwhile:
Index: totem-mozilla-plugin.cpp
===================================================================
RCS file: /cvs/gnome/totem/src/totem-mozilla-plugin.cpp,v
retrieving revision 1.60
diff -u -p -r1.60 totem-mozilla-plugin.cpp
--- totem-mozilla-plugin.cpp    11 Aug 2006 10:52:24 -0000      1.60
+++ totem-mozilla-plugin.cpp    11 Aug 2006 11:50:34 -0000
@@ -704,7 +704,7 @@ totem_plugin_get_value (NPP instance, NP

        switch (variable) {
        case NPPVpluginNameString:
-               *((char **)value) = "Totem Web Browser Plugin";
+               *((char **)value) = "Totem Web Browser Plugin (Windows Media)";
                break;
        case NPPVpluginDescriptionString:
                *((char **)value) = totem_plugin_get_description();

So you get past the first warning.

Closing as a dupe.

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 349014 ***

Yes, I don't think we can put "Windows" in the browser's platform string or support activeX, so this detection code will never be compatible with totem.