[TYPO3-dev] MULTIMEDIA

[Peter Klein]

"JoH asenau" <info at cybercraft.de> wrote in message 
news:mailman.1.1180706434.13945.typo3-dev at lists.netfielders.de...
>> For Flash, you will need to use different OBJECT tags, depending on
>> which browser you are using.
>> As IE needs a CLASSID to stream the content correctly, but Mozilla
>> doesn't work with a CLASSID as it needs a mimetype instead.
>>
>> See: http://alistapart.com/articles/flashsatay
>>
>> Maybe thats similar for non-flash objects too?
>
> You should read the section "the satay method" again, because this is what
> we could implement by default so that CLASSID won't be necessary at all.
>
> Just make the default output of flash movies use a container movie that
> loads the desired movie on demand. Since the container movie won't have 
> any
> influence on the content it loads, this can be a default container moview
> for every flash element one could want to create.
>
> So when the editor uploads a file called "moviewhatever.swf" the output 
> will
> still load the default container movie and hand over the filename as a
> "path" variable.
>

I would prefer using conditions, and output an OBJECT tag with CLASSID for 
IE, and one with mimetype for Mozilla+
That way you won't get into problems in situations where your main Flash SWF 
file also needs parameters passed.

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Peter