................................. To leave Commie, hyper to http://commie.oy.com/commie_leaving.html ................................. or not. we'll see. from "I, Cringely" : <clip> Then, on August 10th, came a note from Apple engineering staff to the QuickTime VR mailing list saying that "IE 5.5 SP2 [for Windows] will not use the QuickTime plug-in no matter what you do. Microsoft has disabled all 'Netscape style' plug-ins, there is nothing you can do. Look for information from us about how work around this problem in the near future." Goodbye EMBED. Of course, this has a delightful outcome for Microsoft. They are able to abandon Java and blame it on Eolas. It puts even more oomph behind Microsoft's move to .NET. And as an extra bonus, Apple's QuickTime (and RealPlayer, too!) gets nuked in favor of Microsoft's next-gen Media Player. </clip> does media player play quicktime? or realmedia? in my experience, not, but then again, i only have some 6.x version at windoze box since it actually works and doesn't need 256 megabytes of memory just for itself like 7.x. so basically, they will start losing the browser war if people just can't click on link to realmedia or quicktime on IE. in my limited experience on streaming stuff on the net, it's either realmedia, mp3 or quicktime. and some few sites have alternative windows media -streams too. there's always netscape. netscape is dead. all praise the company! (not the fucking AOL/TimeWarner though) long live mozilla! [anyone tried Galeon? it uses Mozilla's Gecko-engine but has a lot lighter GUI than mozilla. fast, quite stable good browser -> http://galeon.sourceforge.net/] sakke -- "let me dream like a clairvoyant" - download : ego dissolve
