off topic: WEb Video

2005-03-14 Thread Nick Lidster
Received a question from a friend of mine that is starting to do up a website. And he does not want the video to stream off the site. Ive tried a few things, and it seems that for some reason any v-clip that I try to link to, it will auto launch the required program, with the exception being .asf f

Re: off topic: WEb Video

2005-03-14 Thread Dave Land
Nick, Received a question from a friend of mine that is starting to do up a website. And he does not want the video to stream off the site. Ive tried a few things, and it seems that for some reason any v-clip that I try to link to, it will auto launch the required program, with the exception bein

Re: off topic: WEb Video

2005-03-14 Thread maru
Dave Land wrote: Nick, Received a question from a friend of mine that is starting to do up a website. And he does not want the video to stream off the site. Ive tried a few things, and it seems that for some reason any v-clip that I try to link to, it will auto launch the required program, with t

Re: off topic: WEb Video

2005-03-14 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Mar 14, 2005, at 4:06 PM, maru wrote: Or, he could always just mirror it elsewhere, or make it a torrent (if say it was a large video file). Disadvantage there is the "But I don't want to DL a BT client just to see this video" whine. The option to include text stating a right-click will save

Re: off topic: WEb Video

2005-03-14 Thread Dave Land
On Mar 14, 2005, at 3:19 PM, Warren Ockrassa wrote: On Mar 14, 2005, at 4:06 PM, maru wrote: Or, he could always just mirror it elsewhere, or make it a torrent (if say it was a large video file). Disadvantage there is the "But I don't want to DL a BT client just to see this video" whine. Reminds

Re: off topic: WEb Video

2005-03-14 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Mar 14, 2005, at 5:20 PM, Dave Land wrote: The option to include text stating a right-click will save is probably the optimal one. And doesn't violate How The Web Works, either, although it does activate Donald Norman's "If you have to explain it, it is designed wrong" meme. Well, maybe. The

Re: off topic: WEb Video

2005-03-15 Thread Dave Land
Warren, On Mar 14, 2005, at 5:20 PM, Dave Land wrote: The option to include text stating a right-click will save is probably the optimal one. And doesn't violate How The Web Works, either, although it does activate Donald Norman's "If you have to explain it, it is designed wrong" meme. Well, may

Re: off topic: WEb Video

2005-03-15 Thread Warren Ockrassa
On Mar 14, 2005, at 11:22 PM, Dave Land wrote: I'm actually quite astounded at how easy Apple has made it to get a web server up and running on Mac OS X You mean Apache on BSD? ;) -- Warren Ockrassa, Publisher/Editor, nightwares Books http://books.nightwares.com/ Current work in progress "The Seve

Re: off topic: WEb Video

2005-03-15 Thread Dave Land
On Mar 15, 2005, at 10:44 AM, Warren Ockrassa wrote: On Mar 14, 2005, at 11:22 PM, Dave Land wrote: I'm actually quite astounded at how easy Apple has made it to get a web server up and running on Mac OS X You mean Apache on BSD? ;) Yes, but the point is, you don't have to know that to make it wor