First of all, are you talking about files downloaded onto your desktop
or are you talking about streaming video and audio after you have
clicked on a link from the Internet?
Actually, it is an .mp3 file that is on my guitar club web site that I
created with FrontPage that is hosted out on a server (Bizland..) I
inserted a hot link to the file behind a "click here" statement.
(
http://www.ofgc.net/images/JingleBellRock.mp3) I just don't know what
string of events that happens when somebody clicks on it... IE - ooops, ie:
- how much the browser does based on the file extension... or, how much XP
does with the file extension... or, whatever anything does with it.
SOMEBODY does something with it... 8^)
Now, that I have removed Quck Time from my computer - and, it no longer
automatically comes up... there appears to be a difference between the way
IE, Firefox and Netscape handles the click "event".. IE brings up WMP and
plays it immediately. Both, Firefox and Navigator bring up a decision box
to "play it on what" or "save it"..
Now, that I know that the browser has some sort of role in this process - I
think I'll download Quick Time again and see if it somehow overrides the
browsers role... (??)
Sometimes the websites require
that you use either RealPlayer or Windows Media Player. Some even give
you to option to choose which player you would like to have it streamed
on.
How can they do that?
Clueless in Columbus,
Palmer