Website Help...ahh

[ManBearPig]

1)I was wondering about the best to go about adding video to a website so that people can watch it in the browser itself without having a popup appear. I want to have the ability to play videos on the my website. I want the player to stay in the web page itself. What is the best format? mpeg, mpeg4. Is streaming versus download better? Do I need to have the content stored on a special server, ie. Apple?

2) This page is different on IE and Firefox. On ie, it works the way it should...as in, there are two arrows and you can click left and right. (the arrows are to the left and right of the pictures, and you push them to view the next pic).Thats good, but it doesnt work on FF right at all, it just makes a realllly wide page. any ideas how to fix this? Thanks

 

[imported_LoKe]

1. <embed>

2. I can scroll left and right only in that page, and I'm using Firefox.

 

[ManBearPig]

Originally posted by: LoKe

2. I can scroll left and right only in that page, and I'm using Firefox.

Er, not scroll. there are arrows on either side of the pics and you push them to go left or right. it works in IE but not FF. in FF you have to scroll right and left, not click the pics. this wouldnt be bad but it makes the page very long. thanks

 

[ManBearPig]

bump

 

[ManBearPig]

🙁

 

[igowerf]

It looks like you used Front Page to generate this code and it uses browser sniffing to figure out how to render the scrolling arrows in different browsers. The problem is that the code is explicitly looking for Netscape 6 and up, and not Mozilla/Firefox.

Look in your sldshow.js and find this function:

function fp_ns6() {
return ((navigator.appName == "Netscape") &&
(parseInt(navigator.appVersion.substring(0, 1)) >= 5))
}

Try changing the return value to something like:

function fp_ns6() {
return(!fp_ie4());
}

This will make it treat all browsers that are not IE 4.0 and up as Netscape 6.