[TYPO3-dev] MULTIMEDIA

[Martin Kutschker]

Peter Klein schrieb:
> "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.

I don't like too many TS conditions especially browser checks. Isn't it 
possible to pass on arbitrary parameters from the loader flash to the 
loaded one? If not this is a noteworthy restriction of this method.

Masi