Point: Safari

hazmat

hazmat

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So a friend sent me a URL to some video. Wasn't obvious what the type was. So Chimera said I was missing a plugin for it, and sent me to the Microsoft WMP site, but of course there's no WMP plugin for OS X. Putting in that URL into WMP didn't work either, because the URL was not pointing to an actual video file. IE also has the problem of no plugin. What was the only browser to deal with it? Safari. It said that it had no plugin, but that maybe WMP would play it, and asked me if I wanted to launch it. Sure enough, Safari launched WMP and fed it the video and it played.

So score 1 for Safari. As much as I like Chimera, and still use it because of tabs, if Safari gets tabs I will switch. With Apple behind it, I have the most hopes for it. This video thing was a great example I think.
 
It's a great example indeed that Apple Inc. communicates better with M$ than Mozilla does. Which is already of common knowledge :)
 
I quite agree on this point. But this thread will never end if we start listing what MSIE cannot do properly :D
 
sure there's a WMP plug in for os x. i just got thru installing it on the GF's mac yesterday. it's been available for a long time. i can't believe m$ has never updated it. but if safari can handle WMP and real player, it will take over the browser market.
 
Toast: the point was only because it should open in Microsoft's player. ;)

Ed: where is this plugin? All I see is the independent player.
 
WMP installs the plugin but it doesn't work on any browser anyway :rolleyes:

Library/Internet Plug-Ins/ Windows Media Player

It's shown as a regular folder and not as a plugin...
 
no, it works with ie doesn't it?

there is an issue with the older os 9 version wanting to have priority over the newer one in some cases. i still have to sit down and work that out on the GF's mac.
 
No, I have no OS 9 on this system, the latest versions of IE and WMP, but nothing in plugins. Other browsers will send me to the Microsoft download page, where all there is is WMP itself.
 
well, this issue actually came up for me yesterday. my GF wanted to view a WMP file and we couldn't get it to work with her os x ie. she eventually used netscape in classic to see it. but i saw it thru ie on the 1st try. so i went looking for the helper apps and plug ins and found the plug in just where bonefill said it is. but despite reinstalling it several times on my GF's machine, i couldn't get it so that her ie was reconfigured to see it in the process. guess i'll have to do it by hand. the only difference i can think of is that i had the extracted version from entourage first before the real public release. somebody here was sharing it at the time. maybe it was the one that did the settings and placed the correct plug-in as it installed.
 
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