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Re: How do I embed QuickTime movies?
awesome!
thanks for letting me know.
And yes, I will get rid of those <code>language=“javascript”</code> items, thanks for pointing it out.
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Re: How do I embed QuickTime movies?
Hey Wolle, FYI, I just updated walk_qt to v0.6. I have completely fixed the file specifier. If you use a file id in the video custom_field, it now works perfectly. Your test case should be fixed.
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Re: How do I embed QuickTime movies?
Hi Walker, thanks a lot! Great work! I installed v0.6 and now everything works like a charme! Thank you very much!
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Re: How do I embed QuickTime movies?
Hey, this sounds a very nice plugin, but is there anyplace where i can see it in action ?
I wen trhough the forum posts and saw no urls …
thx
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Re: How do I embed QuickTime movies?
You can see it here (this is a non-javascript embed enabled version).
You can see the javascript version working on my site
The example on my site is using javascript to embed (to get around the soon to be a problem Eolas patch for IE) and is using the pages -> article -> forms method of determining what movie to embed……so it’s working like a video blogger would want it to work if they wanted to just make a new “article” every day and specify a custom_field with the video ID of that day’s video entry. etc.
Last edited by Walker (2006-06-27 17:42:57)
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Re: How do I embed QuickTime movies?
ace plugin :)
I have a question – would it be complicated to make the plugin search for a custom-field other than one called ‘video’?
I’m using it on a site with mp3s and movies mixed together in the file manager.
The upm_img_popper plugin is really useful for adding file IDs to custom fields, but it can be set to target only one field.
So it puts movie IDs in my ‘mp3’ field (or vice versa). It would be nice to have a joint ‘mp3/video’ field for the popper to target.
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Re: How do I embed QuickTime movies?
Updated the plugin.
You can now create a tag like this: <code><txp:wlk_qt fieldname=“mp3/video” /></code> and it will use that instead of “video”. (It still defaults to video if you choose not to set this.)
Last edited by Walker (2006-07-21 13:02:17)
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Re: How do I embed QuickTime movies?
that is quite an incredible response!
thank you x 1000
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#33 2006-07-24 01:19:26
- NyteOwl
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Re: How do I embed QuickTime movies?
On this matter a new article … <a href=“http://www.alistapart.com/articles/byebyeembed”>http://www.alistapart.com/articles/byebyeembed</a>
Last edited by NyteOwl (2006-09-14 00:56:50)
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Re: How do I embed QuickTime movies?
NyteOwl, I really feel that that article was written at an inappropriate moment or published at an unfortunate time. Unless one wants to tackle the argument of validating code that is written to the DOM only through javascript, then that article doesn’t really hold relevance for me any more.
The Eolas patch was released on february 28th. Because of this, all audio, video, and flash files should be embedded with javascript now, anyway.
The article is excellent, but I find it impractical to devote time to this issue at this moment.
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Re: How do I embed QuickTime movies?
Sorry if I’m opening a can of worms here, but I’m not sure I understand this issue…
To me, it’s preferrable for media files to be in the source HTML so that they can be indexed, regardless of whether this makes the page fail the W3 validator. Does the javascript method have any other benefit than enabling validation?
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Re: How do I embed QuickTime movies?
Hell yes.
If you build websites, you need to make them work with IE (95% of users in the world….maybe?), and because of this we now need to use javascript to embed the movie so that IE users do not have the modified behavior of click to activate.
Please please please, web designers and developers, read up on the Eolas issue. The patch was released on February 28, 2006. Please install it on your windows testing boxes and see how it changes the behavior required of users relating to the use of ActiveX-embedded plugins.
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