Quicktime movies in pop-up window

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nyuchi

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My question is regarding putting a quicktime movie into a pop-up window, which I have done sucessfully with the code I pasted below. However, my hangup is that I believe its IE5.2 and other non-netscape/non-mac browsers are no longer supporting quicktime in the way that they used to.

I have found many articles about this online regarding the use of the <object> tag so that the active x plug-in is used, etc. But they say you need to use this <object> tag with the <embed> tag. The funny thing is I am not even using the <embed> tag here, but rather a javascript code which worked fine on my browser, Mozilla firefox, but found problems with the IE on my g4.

Can someone shed some light on how to play a quicktime in a pop-up window (not using the QTplayer) that will be compatible for most all browsers and platforms? I would be fine to use the <object> and <embed> tags if I could understand how to also get the movie appear in a popup window. It would help if I grasped javascript better I am sure, but for now I simply just take the code off other peoples web sites...
thanks.

------this is the link :
<A HREF="javascript:firstWindow()">

-----this is the part between the <head> tags:
}
function firstWindow() {

qtWin = window.open('video/Nawal_Aman.mov', 'movie','width=240,height=196')

}
 
it might be better to create a separate html page where you embed the movie using the <object> and <embed> tags, and then save this page as movie.html in your video folder, and then modify your function to look like this: qtWin = window.open('video/movie.html', 'movie','width=240,height=196')
 
I get it...so the instead of opening the video directly with the javascript, I open up a html page which simply autoplays the movie. sometimes the more obvious things can be the most illusive to me...
thanks!!
 
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