At 5:09 AM -0500 1/5/06, [EMAIL PROTECTED] supposedly scribed:
Ok, I get it: the former is a browser plugin and the latter a
Quicktime plugin.
So what's the advantage of the QT plugin รณ for web browsing, that is?
Works better...
Yes I have the ms video software installed; the
browser plug-in, while being evil, simply doesn't
work very well. Using a QuickTime plug-in plays
more content and give less troubles playing that
content (must acknowledge that there is still
lots of "wmv" content that neither scenario will
"play").
One would think that with the whole iPod/iTunes
thing more sites would offer QuickTime as an
option... and a few do there and there. But
mostly it's ms or Real if there is a choice to
end users.
As for the MIME issues, I think we've been
through that discussion. My test was served from
my commercial ISP (Network Solutions, a fairly
major enterprise) and I do not control MIME
assignments at the server level. The chances of
convincing thousands and thousands of web admins
to actually do the right thing is kind like
tilting at windmills. Face it, half (not a
scientific number, but certainly close) the Mac
specific web sites serve .dmg as text/plain so
there has to be "consideration" in the browser to
correct that mistake. I'm pretty sure that some
of that consideration was built into Camino for
dmg's...
Torben, I think you've hit the nail... never in a
million years would I have thought WebKit was
involved... it does make some sense. We all
collectively need to put some polite heat on
them... the point being we Caminoites's need to
remove as many barriers to using it as we can!
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