Re: Embedding QuickTime movie

On 12/29/07 9:23 PM, patrick j wrote:


I'm trying to get a QuickTime movie to work in various browsers which is in a very simple web-page.

It works very well in Safari but not in FireFox, nor in iCab or Camino or IE 7.
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I'm wondering what the problem might be?

Thank you for any assistance you may be able to give.


Patrick,
As you've discovered, the current versions of IE don't work with this method. It now requires a Javascript stub, and obviously, Javascript enabled on the browser. This new method will work in all browsers. No need for any IE-specific code.

There's a good explanation of this at:

http://www.barebones.com/products/bbedit/embedtag.shtml

If you've got a number of pages with the <object> style code to convert, the BBEdit script will do the job nicely (it does require BBEdit which runs only a Mac).

The description of the code conversion process is excellent at this site, even if you can't use the tool. There are links to both the Apple and Microsoft's discussions on this topic as well.

You can certainly alter the user warning message (inside the <noscript> container) to your liking or just replace the <img> container with a text warning without the image.

Art
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