Kayla,
I asked:
> > Is there a way, with JavaScript or <embed> settings, to have
> >a quicktime automatically start playing when the page has loaded?
>
> AFAIK there is no way to capture that event in any version of javascript.
Turns out the trick is to turn the problem inside out; you can
embed javascript commands into a quicktime by adding a text track
named "HREFtrack" to the quicktime. The details are at
www.quicktime.apple.com, under the developer link, search for HREF.
Warped, but in the particular circumstances it does the job...
> >> How do I specify where a new popup window will come up?
>
> In your call to window.open, you can add an extra parameter. For Navigator
> 4, you can use screenX=(horizontal position of top-left corner) and
> screenY=(for vertical position of top-left corner). For IE4 you use
> left=value and top=value. For 3.x browsers you are sol. Both ie and ns will
> ignore the other's spec of window location so you can throw both in.
Cool 'nuff... Got this working.
> > How do I kill the window when I'm done with it?
>
> Not sure what you mean here. You want the window to automatically destroy
> itself?
Pretty much the idea; have a window pop up, play a quicktime, then
go away. Managed to include the .close command in a file referenced by
the HREF track.
> >(I wish Javascript were a well-designed, bug-free language with
> >standard implementations in all browsers. The niche it tackles is an
Given that Netscape's opened their source, I'd expect somebody to
have built a version that has another, more sane language built-in
(Perl, for example :-); on the other hand I wouldn't be surprised if
Netscape declined to incorporate such a language into their browser,
since it would probably cannibalize Javascript's market.
> Unfortunately it was designed by a guy who should never have thought he
> could design a language.
Yeah, well. Who knows what the thought processes were. I
suspect strongly that the language was more accreted, the way coral
reefs do, than designed. Possibly it started life as a limited
server-side macro language that some exec decided could be the next
big thing.
Steven J. Owens
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