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Works in FF 2.x and Safari, but not IE 6

 
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Works in FF 2.x and Safari, but not IE 6
by Fred Lunau - Friday, 1 August 2008, 2:07 AM
 
Hi,

I'm having great success running the editor and playing the results in Firefox and Safari, but IE seems to be having problems. In IE, the video plays, but the slides do not track the transitions in the video. The video plays fine, but the slides don't advance when they should, as they do on FF and Safari. I have tested this out on 2 different systems.

Is this known behavior? I am using the autoview-module-2008061901.zip version.

Many thanks,

- Fred -
 
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Re: Works in FF 2.x and Safari, but not IE 6
by Tim Williams - Monday, 4 August 2008, 1:27 PM
 
It's not something i've experienced in IE 6, it should work. Which video plugin are you using ?
 
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Re: Works in FF 2.x and Safari, but not IE 6
by Tim Williams - Monday, 11 August 2008, 7:33 PM
 
I've just come accross a computer on which this behavious is evident and I think i've worked out why it's happening, but not evident on all computers.

The slides are set by a javascript timer which continually monitors the position of the video. It seems that in IE if Quicktime isn't ready and you try to call a QT javascript method, the timer itself dies and slide sync fails as a result. In other browsers, the timer keeps going when this happens and you just get a non-critical error message in the browser error console. QT is a bit slow to initialise in IE and I suspect a recent update to either IE or QT might have made the problem noticeable for a larger number of systems.

Either way, i've now inserted a bit of code which will cause the timer to be restarted after the page has finished loading, this seems to have fixed the problem for me. This is in the current dev code and will be included in the next release version.
 
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