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Monday, 30 June 2008 12:25

I officially hate Internet Explorer...again.

Microsoft decided to change the way Internet Explorer handles embedded videos. We use Joomla for our website and the way we embed videos is like this:

<object classid="clsid:02BF25D5-8C17-4B23-BC80-D3488ABDDC6B" codebase="http://www.apple.com/qtactivex/qtplugin.cab#version=6,0,2,0" width="320" height="256"><param name="width" value="320" /><param name="height" value="256" /><param nam="src" value="dir/filename.ext" />><embed type="video/quicktime" width="320" height="256" src="/dir/filename.ext" mce_src="/dir/filename.ext></embed></object>

Well if you're using ANY OTHER BROWSER IN THE WORLD this will display fine. HOWEVER, if you're using Internet Explorer you'll get a box with a Q and a ? in it.

There is a solution to call to an external js file but I'm not doing that FOR EVERY SINGLE VIDEO WE UPLOAD. SO, if you really want to see our videos you'll install Opera, Mozilla Firefox, or Safari, etc. I personally recommend Mozilla Firefox. I've been using it since just before their initial 1.0 release (they just released 3.0) and I've never looked back. And I never will.

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1 Thursday, 03 July 2008 14:13
jared
I don't think IE is the problem, per say... Your install of Joomla! is using clean URL's which is adding "/index.php/" to your URL. The location value for the movie is relative, so it's literally looking for the directory "/index.php/movies/movie.mov"

Try not using the relative URL's (http://amorford.homeip.net/movies/movie.mov) and it should work in IE as well as the other browsers.

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