When building a new website In Freeway 5, I have encountered two strange problems.
The following two test-pages contain two different QT-buttons playing small soundclips.
The first test-page has been reported to crash the browser on some - but far from all Intel Macs.
www.larsboye.dk/test/
Can anybody spot any errors in my QT / HTML coding on this page?
This version works fine on a number of various computer setups I have tested (both Windows and Macs). However, newer Intel Macs may have problems getting the wired sprite movie-button to work correctly. Any feedback on the functionality of this feature is greatly appreciated…
I use the QuickTime-button on my webpage www.larsboye.dk
Be warned, though, that this page is in Danish only…
Best regards and thank you in advance for any help and suggestions!
This seemed fine when I tried it. But be warned, wired sprites are
one of the victims of Apple’s security enhancements for QuickTime in
recent incremental updates - and what still works now could well be
axed in the next security patch. You’ll have to find a different
technology if you want to have anything but the most basic
sprite-style interactivity. Although QuickTime is still a major
technology for media-specific uses, as a viable sprite-based rich
interactive medium it is close to dead in the water.
Basically, Flash is the only reliable technology around at the
moment. QuickTime’s recent security patches have screwed up many cool
techniques, Java is too complex to code custom solutions and can be
flakey and slow on some hardware, and Shockwave is still not
Intel-native - so it won’t run on non-PPC Macs. (Not without
rebooting the browser in Rosetta mode, and who’s going to do that?)
This seemed fine when I tried it. But be warned, wired sprites are
one of the victims of Apple’s security enhancements for QuickTime in
recent incremental updates - and what still works now could well be
axed in the next security patch. You’ll have to find a different
technology if you want to have anything but the most basic
sprite-style interactivity. Although QuickTime is still a major
technology for media-specific uses, as a viable sprite-based rich
interactive medium it is close to dead in the water.
Yes, that is my experience, although I hate to admit it.
Basically, Flash is the only reliable technology around at the
moment. QuickTime’s recent security patches have screwed up many cool
techniques, Java is too complex to code custom solutions and can be
flakey and slow on some hardware, and Shockwave is still not
Intel-native - so it won’t run on non-PPC Macs. (Not without
rebooting the browser in Rosetta mode, and who’s going to do that?)
k
I’ll probably have to construct a more simple QT-solution.
Although QuickTime is still a major
technology for media-specific uses, as a viable sprite-based rich
interactive medium it is close to dead in the water.
Yes, that is my experience, although I hate to admit it.
Me too. I’m sure Apple isn’t happy about this either, but I suppose
this is the way things are going. Security is an increasingly
important issue for everyone. [sigh]
I hope Apple manages to revive some of the lost functionality in
QuickTime, but I suspect that it will leave at least part of all this
to Flash.