thanks, josh. it closed the Safari browser i was working in containing other tabs i was using. nice one.
cheers r -- <URL: http://r.24x7.com > Deconstructing the status quo, collaboratively On Oct 11, 2005, at 12:53 PM, Joshua Kinberg wrote: > Actually, a pop-up window with an embedded player is quite useful. > Most people on the web are using MIcrosoft Internet Explorer > (unfortunately), and IE disables Quicktime Fast-Start playback unless > the video is properly embedded using both the HTML Object and Embed > tags. Simply linking to your videos, as many of us do, leaves IE users > waiting for whole video to download before it will begin to play. > > Here's one solution... I was playing around with this a while back: > < > http://www.joshkinberg.com/blog/popup.php?url=http://joshkinberg.com/ > blog/files/tornado.mov >> > > Its a simple PHP page that you can pass in the URL of a video file and > it will properly embed that video. This way, you don't have to make a > new HTML page for every video pop-up window. You use the same page and > simply pass in the URL to the video you wish to display. > > This could also be modified to handle various video types (like WMV). > > Lastly, I also added controls to resize the video and window (which > might seem annoying to some of you, but hey just playing around here). > > My idea was to finish this off and pass it to OurMedia so that people > could have a place to load up their video in a pop-up if they > wished.... this is not easy to do if you're on Blogger and have no > where to upload HTML or PHP files. But... I got sidetracked with other > things and never finished this off. Not even sure if other people > would find it useful. What do you think? > > -josh > > > > On 10/11/05, Michael Sullivan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> of course it is best to provide all options to audience, since >> opinions differ, as we see here. >> whenever possible, we should try to cater to all preferences. >> >> >> >> On 10/11/05, Josh Leo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >>> i like it when the video stays in the browser window.I don't like >>> the way Taylor does his popups (the actual quicktime app) and unless >>> there is a good reason for having a popup (like freevlog) then i say >>> don't do it. Ideally, all videos would be transcoded and embedded >>> right in the page like steve garfields...but not all of us are vblog >>> central members, and not all of us can do that...so i say let it >>> play int he browser window that is already open.... >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On 10/11/05, Markus Sandy < [EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>> >>>> Man! Don't you just hate it when people center things, >>>> like pop-ups, and don't take into account people with dual screens? >>>> >>>> >>>> Devlon wrote: >>>> >>>> I should clarify that I have two monitors so that makes a >>>> difference. >>>> >>>> On 10/10/05, Devlon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>>> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>> That is probably the only type of pop-up I don't mind. It >>>> allows me to do >>>> other stuff while the clip is playing. 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