- From: Michael Condouris <priority_one@amberdigital.com>
- Date: 09 Sep 2003 17:29:59 -0400
- To: Jake Robb <jakerobb@mac.com>
- Cc: W3C Public Web Plugins List <public-web-plugins@w3.org>
It would be a fairly trivial change to have IE launch a linked swf directly in the standalone flash player, rather than in the browser window using activeX. At this point no plugin would be required; it'd be a regular <a href=> tag which opened a separate program. This would be fine for most non-irritating uses of flash (and I say that as a purveryor of said flash irritations) For instance, Homestar Runner would just open to an html splash page, have a link to their flash site, and that would open in Flash Player. On Tue, 2003-09-09 at 16:54, Jake Robb wrote: > I suspect that Eolas would fight that as long as you're viewing the Flash > document from within a browser. > > However, downloading and saving the SWF, and then playing it with QuickTime > Player should be okay. > > -Jake > > > > neo binedell wrote: > > > > > So what is the concensus when one opens a > > flash swf document directly from the server > > (i.e. not embedded inside a web page)? > > > > There are no html tags or html documents for > > that matter? > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > ::: Quantum materiae materietur > > ::: marmota monax si marmota > > ::: monax materiam possit materiari? > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > > > > >> Jake, > > > >> That's my impression also about the '906 patent. The nut of the patent > >> is that a plugin is run inside of a Web page (AKA, hypermedia document) > >> and it has its own dedicated area of the Web page to show output and > >> interact with a user. > > > >> Richard > > > > -- Michael Condouris http://www.amberdigital.com Telephone: 973-857-7707
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