Thats strange. Safari window resizes for me, doesnt disappear completely, and other tabs are still available.
On firefox 1.5 beta 1, the window does not seem to resize at all. I like the php script, but I dont think I like it resizing the main browser, Id rather have a popup than that. Steve of Elbows --- In videoblogging@yahoogroups.com, robert a/k/a r <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > thanks, josh. it closed the Safari browser i was working in containing > other tabs i was using. nice one. > > > cheers > r > > -- > <URL: http://r.24x7.com > > Deconstructing the status quo, collaboratively > > > > > On Oct 11, 2005, at 12:53 PM, Joshua Kinberg wrote: > > > Actually, a pop-up window with an embedded player is quite useful. > > Most people on the web are using MIcrosoft Internet Explorer > > (unfortunately), and IE disables Quicktime Fast-Start playback unless > > the video is properly embedded using both the HTML Object and Embed > > tags. Simply linking to your videos, as many of us do, leaves IE users > > waiting for whole video to download before it will begin to play. > > > > Here's one solution... I was playing around with this a while back: > > < > > http://www.joshkinberg.com/blog/popup.php?url=http://joshkinberg.com/ > > blog/files/tornado.mov > >> > > > > Its a simple PHP page that you can pass in the URL of a video file and > > it will properly embed that video. This way, you don't have to make a > > new HTML page for every video pop-up window. You use the same page and > > simply pass in the URL to the video you wish to display. > > > > This could also be modified to handle various video types (like WMV). > > > > Lastly, I also added controls to resize the video and window (which > > might seem annoying to some of you, but hey just playing around here). > > > > My idea was to finish this off and pass it to OurMedia so that people > > could have a place to load up their video in a pop-up if they > > wished.... this is not easy to do if you're on Blogger and have no > > where to upload HTML or PHP files. But... I got sidetracked with other > > things and never finished this off. Not even sure if other people > > would find it useful. What do you think? > > > > -josh ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor --------------------~--> Most low income households are not online. Help bridge the digital divide today! http://us.click.yahoo.com/cd_AJB/QnQLAA/TtwFAA/lBLqlB/TM --------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/videoblogging/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
