Apple pulls an Adobe, requires Apple Quicktime player but won't support it

Post by angusgr » Tue, Jun 08, 2010, 3:02 AM UTC

papachito wrote: post #5

pronoiac wrote: post #3

This is a rant about Apple using Quicktime for video on their site. I can view Quicktime on Firefox on Linux - while Flash only has one halfway decent player, Quicktime files are supported by many different tools & players.

I'm on Linux too, I can't view Quicktime unless I install illegal codecs.

Post by mhw » Tue, Jun 08, 2010, 8:56 AM UTC

russss wrote: post #12

alanh wrote: post #8

I got the same thing in Chrome on OS X (however, I have all plug-ins disabled due to the current Flash vulnerability). I can’t imagine this is anything more than an oversight that will soon enough be corrected. The copy on that page is a bit rough, too: > Apple engineers designed the A4 chip to be a remarkably powerful yet remarkably power-efficient mobile processor. (emphasis mine) I think the page was a rush job, s…

This video is working fine for me with Chrome on Linux.

Post by [deleted] » Tue, Jun 08, 2010, 11:47 AM UTC

papachito wrote: post #4

ugh wrote: post #2

It’s not quite as simple as that – that becomes plainly obvious pretty fast in this related discussion: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1411779 They seem to use the video-tag in some cases (Safari, maybe Chrome) but not in others. We don’t yet know how exactly they decide whether to use the video-tag or QuickTime. The mystery isn’t yet solved so if anyone wants to help …

> They seem to use the video-tag in some cases (Safari, maybe Chrome) but not in others Not chrome, only Safari. So yes, this is basically the same thing as forcing flash as you either have to change the browser, get a new OS if you're on linux, install a plugin, download the file manually or cheat your user agent. Not very "standard" friendly to say the least.