September 18, 2003
More Launch.not
Marty has picked up the ball on the Launch.not browser-detection ugliness and confirmed that the Launch.not video does indeed play on IE 6 on Windows. Shocker.
Following up on this test and doing my own due diligence, I present the following.
IE 5.2
Camino 0.7.0
Omniweb 4.5
Opera 6.02
Success? No. the video never showed. Moreover, when I refreshed the page, I was greeted with the ever-popular:
In the interest of completeness, I decided to run a BrowserCam job to see what the Windows and Linux browsers were up to. Not much, it seems.
I ran and re-run the job a few times and got the same result each time. I have to assume that the video would have played on those displaying "Load a plug-in you don't have" dialog boxes.
I have to hand it to Yahoo, the parent of Launch. Their Launch.com System Requirements page tells the truth on what to expect from Macintosh browsers.
Still, it seems that the core application that runs the video is Windows Media Player. This is all one should really need, if only one was given the opportunity to download a streaming file with an external app — like everybody else does it! If they don't, they should.
Posted by jtnt at September 18, 2003 06:40 PM in Web Development | TrackBack