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Re: how about moving away from quicktime?
Fulvio Senore 2006-Sep-17 08:30:00
I think that there would be another reason to add other viewers to
QuickTime VR, which (btw) is clearly abandonware.
I have a similar site (mountain panoramic images) and from the logs I
see that most visits come from Monday to Friday. Visits during the
weekend are much lower. I believe that this means that people visit my
site mainly while they are at work :-) .
Since Quicktime cannot be reasonably used for working purposes I suppose
that it is not installed in most computers that people use at work, and
I suppose that those workers cannot install new software.
For this reason the WWP is probably losing a lot of potential visits, so
I think that it would be a good idea to add some viewer that could work
on corporate computers.
One possible choice is Java, since it is often used to execute programs
used at work, so it is probably installed of many computers where people
work.
There are two Java viewers available: they are not likely to be able to
handle full screen panos because java has memory limitations, but seeing
the small images is better than nothing, I suppose.
Of course there might be other choices as well.
Fulvio Senore
jeffrey ha scritto:
> Another reason why quicktime is crap.
> I refuse to suggest to my viewers that they download 40mb itunes, so I
> send them to the 12mb 6.5 standalone. Whatever.
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> Anyway. Why can't the WWP use a sniffer like lots of other sites, that
> plays deval, java, or spi-V ?
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> Quicktime has crossed the line from plain Crap to something Dangerous!!!
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