[TYPO3-dev] CType Multimedia

[Martin Ficzel]

Martin Kutschker schrieb:
> Typo3 schrieb:
>> Hi
>>
>> Why Typo3 creates only <embed ..., which is proprietary element
>> - that doesn't work in IE, which makes the content type useless.
>> Why this solution?
> 
> I guess because in the meantime those who need it use special extensions
>  and the other ones don't care.
> 
> If you think about doing something about it consider releasing a
> standalone XCLASS extension. We had that discussion before and you may
> remember that no Core developer is willing to dig into you huge
> collection of various changes and enhancements.
> 
> My ideas for implementation:
> 
> Make the file type a subtype of the multi media record type and use this
> subtype as key for a flex form switch. So you can have all the right
> configuration options for the various file types (movie, mp3, flash).
> But while this is fine for Flash (only one plugin) this might be more of
> a problem for movies as you must decide which plugin to use on Windows.

i already worked on an updated multimedia element see my post
("multimedia content element : some ideas" from 24.08.2006 )

i will sketch the concepts here:

- use typoscript to provide a proper code for each filetyoe, so the
setup can be changed without programming
- use render-methods like in current textpic to:
	- add a old style rendering wich is comatible to the current one
	- add a xhtml rendering methods (css styled)
	- maybe add a windows rendering method wich is activated with a
ts-condition

i created an extension wich works on my testserver but i never finished
the testing. if you are interested i can send you a copy.

the changes are not big (only some ts and a small function have to be
added to css_styled_contend )

regards Martin