[thelist] Embedding Media on Mac IE and then scripting to the player...

John Dowdell jdowdell at macromedia.com
Fri Jul 6 14:10:26 CDT 2001


If this is "Can JavaScript control plugins in IE/Mac?" then no, it can't, sorry.

You can have JavaScript/Plugin intercommunication in Java-enabled Netscape
3.x and 4.x on recent Macs and PCs, and VBScript/Control intercommunication
in IE3+/Win... those are environments which support such an ability.

But IE/Mac, Netscape 6, Java-disabled Netscape, other browsers and other
platforms don't offer parallels to Netscape's LiveConnect or Microsoft's
ActiveX Scripting yet, sorry.


Hmm, considering it's a CD, you might consider using Director, which has
deep CD-authoring abilities. Even if you need to put everything inside a
web page, and can't use memory-management, then the Shockwave Player can
offer interactive control over various video formats, without browser
dependencies beyond ordinary plugin support.

Hmm, one other approach is that QuickTime can now support *internal*
interactivity, and people using IE/Mac almost certainly have QuickTime
installed... if you can put the interactivity inside the .MOV, rather than
inside the .HTM, then that's another way to avoid browser dependencies.

jd




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