On 30/07/07, James Cridland <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 7/29/07, Andy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > (boring DRM invective deleted) > > > Also why does the BBC trust's report not mention the fact that not > > only is iPlayer Windows only, it is IE only? Did the BBC not tell them > > they where doing this? Why can't it work with Firefox? iplayer:// can > > be made to run iPlayer from Firefox it's not exactly tricky is it? Or > > do you use some dodgy way of invoking iPlayer from IE? (or is it no > > longer IE only?) > > > I asked just this question; and the answer is the invocation of the iPlayer > is some kind of ActiveX nastiness. Everything else works just fine with > Firefox, but the team made the sensible decision to make the entire site > "not work", rather than allow you to get all the way to choosing a programme > and then be told you can't. It *is* on the roadmap to be sorted, though; as > is the Mac/Linux issue. >
FireFox can be used by installing the IETab plugin & adding the iplayer site to it. I know it's a fudge & of course IE embedded is running under the hood - but it allows seamless use with Firefox (works with Windoze Update as well). Useability excellent. https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1419 http://ietab.mozdev.org/ Regards, Nico Morrison __________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] Skype: nicomorrison __________________________ - Sent via the backstage.bbc.co.uk discussion group. To unsubscribe, please visit http://backstage.bbc.co.uk/archives/2005/01/mailing_list.html. Unofficial list archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/backstage@lists.bbc.co.uk/
