QuickTime for the Web: For Windows and Macintosh, Second Edition
A comprehensive explanation of QuickTime for every multimedia author.
TABLE OF CONTENTS QuickTime for the Web: For Windows and Macintosh, Second Edition
Special Features of the QuickTime Plug-in
The QuickTime plug-in has a lot of special features that you can control from HTML. You can tell the QuickTime plug-in to start playing a movie automatically or to wait until the user clicks the Play button. Or you can tell the QuickTime plug-in not to let users save the movie to disk, giving you some basic copy-protection. Or you can hide the movie controller, set the default audio volume, have the plug-in play a series of movies one after another ... but wait! There's more!
The QuickTime plug-in has over 25 special features that can be controlled from HTML, and these features can be combined in hundreds of ways. You control the special features by inserting parameters in the tag. (The basic technique of putting a QuickTime movie in a Web page using the tag, and the parameters that control the browser, are described in Chapter 4, "Basic Training: Putting QuickTime in a Web Page.")
This section describes some particularly cool features of the plug-in in detail, then lists all the parameters that the QuickTime plug-in understands.
Some Particularly Cool Features
Autoplay
As John Brunner once wrote, "It's supposed to be automatic, but actually you have to push this button." You can simplify the user interface by having the QuickTime movie start playing automatically. The user doesn't have to do anything. People are singularly amazed when they click into a website and it just starts talking.
<span class="fixed">AUTOPLAY="True" "False"</span>
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