Heh, JD hangs out here! For those of you who don't know - JD has been helping people solve their Director and Flash problems for as long as I can remember... and, as a (now ex-) member of Direct-L since 1995, I can honestly say that it is well worth listening to this man's advice.
Cheers for the info John. Christian On 6 Apr 2006, at 19:20, John Dowdell wrote: > Stan Hirson, Sarah Jones wrote: >> Should we be concerned about Microsoft's making changes to IE to >> conform >> to the Eolas decision? > > I haven't installed the optional Microsoft update to IE6 yet (or > the IE7 > beta), but from all I've heard, video plays just the same as before... > it's interactivity which requires that initial click before > receiving focus. > > If you've got a pause/play/volume interface within your video (as with > FLV skins) then someone in a new Microsoft system will see a "Please > click" message during mouseover, and then they'll be able to > shuttle the > video. (I'm not sure what happens if you use house chrome for playback > controls, a la QuickTime, Real, or WMP... suspect it's the same.) > > Summary: Should display fine regardless, but it's interactivity > with the > video which is at the center of the dispute. > > I've seen lots of people hacking together their preferred solutions > over > the past month, but the best set of general links and recommendations > I've seen is still at the Adobe Active Content Center: > http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/activecontent/ > > jd > > > > > > -- > John Dowdell . Adobe Developer Support . San Francisco CA USA > Weblog: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/jd > Aggregator: http://weblogs.macromedia.com/mxna > Technotes: http://www.macromedia.com/support/ > Spam killed my private email -- public record is best, thanks. > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > > > > > 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/
