Thank you for these links, Paul.
Curt Olson
Paul Jacobson wrote:
> 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-play=
er
>
> QuickTime X
> http://arstechnica.com/apple/reviews/2009/08/mac-os-x-10-6.ars/6#quicktim=
e-x
>
>
> cheers
> Paul
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