I`m new to freeway and I have a question concerning quicktime movies. I´like to embed a movie in a website.
I don´t like the quicktime controller bar that freeway generates. Don´t want the visitor of my website to download my quicktimes.
Is there any possibility to change the controller bar?
I´m using Freeway 5.5 Express.
Hope anybody has an idea!
It’s a common misconception that your visitors can be set to “not
download” something that you place on your Web pages. In order to see
any part of a Web page, point in fact, they must download it. Now
granted it gets downloaded to an inconvenient spot in their browser
cache, but that’s all it is – an inconvenience – not a technical
impediment to saving the file and doing whatever with it.
As to the visual aspect of the plug-in controller bar, note that
Freeway does not draw that. Freeway offers you the option to hide it
entirely (in which case your users will need to suffer the indignity
of auto-play, or know how to start and stop a QuickTime movie using a
double-click and a click, respectively).
Apple has shown some off some amazing JavaScript skins for the plug-in
on their product pages, but so far, they have not released any of this
code into the public domain where an enterprising Action-writer could
scoop it up and make it easy to apply.
Walter
On Mar 7, 2011, at 4:40 AM, mallo wrote:
Hello there!
I`m new to freeway and I have a question concerning quicktime
movies. I´like to embed a movie in a website.
I don´t like the quicktime controller bar that freeway generates. Don
´t want the visitor of my website to download my quicktimes.
Is there any possibility to change the controller bar?
I´m using Freeway 5.5 Express.
Hope anybody has an idea!
Leaving the controller bar showing gives you the greatest amount of control for the least amount of work. How you feel about its aesthetics is another matter.
If you really want to dig in and figure out how to apply a JavaScript skin to the player, Apple has reams and reams of documentation available.
I’ve written a little widget that shows the current position of the playhead on the timeline using JavaScript, but it doesn’t act as a control (you can’t slide it along and change the movie’s current position) and it doesn’t work at all in IE.
Apple has managed all of this with their code, but it’s all copyright, and it’s all served up with conditional branching versions for different browsers. Quite a tour de force. But then they have rooms full of really ace front-end programmers there.