On 25/10/2009, at 11:48 AM, Curt Olson wrote:
> Exactly. And also, when I click on the loudspeaker icon on the left
> side of QuickTime player, the audio is muted in Safari 4.0.3; in
> Firefox 3.5.3, the volume control slider appears.
>
> These changes appeared with Safari 4.0.
>
> Curt Olson
It might be worth taking a look at the following articles which give a
bit of background on what is happening with WebKit/Safari and
Quicktime. The situation is quite complicated and a bit of background
reading might help with understanding what is going on.
I've personally noticed that there is both native QT-X and QT7.6.3
used in Safari depending on how the media is embedded into the page.
This is partly due to Safari implementing the new HTML5 <audio> and
<video> tags which will eventually allow browsers to natively support
audio. Unfortunately this is a point that is being hotly contested
amongst browser manufacturers - Apple is supporting mp3, Firefox Ogg
Vorbis, and Microsoft doesn't want anything that will challenge their
Silverlight plugin. It seems that in certain cases - such as when the
audio or video opens in a new window - Safari is wrapping media in the
new tags and there is no facility for saving etc. The last link has a
very good explanation of WHY these changes are being made to QuickTime
X, and it's quite clear it's not simply a matter of Apple being
perverse.
The Curious Case of QuickTime X
http://waffle.wootest.net/2009/06/14/qt-x/
QuickTime Player
http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2009/08/mac-os-x-10-6.ars/16#qt-player
QuickTime X
http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2009/08/mac-os-x-10-6.ars/6#quicktime-=
x
cheers
Paul
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