17 Dec
2005
17 Dec
'05
6:29 p.m.
On 12/17/05, Lee Revell <rlrevell(a)joe-job.com> wrote:
On Sat, 2005-12-17 at 12:36 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote:
Yeah, that's what I see also, if the system even understands the link
in the first place.
The Firefox guys do not make it obvious for new users how you link a
specific media type to a specific player. Maybe mplayerplug-in does
that, and it does a better job than 1-2 years ago, but it seems that
there's a long way to go yet to have a new user sit down and have this
stuff 'just work'.
- Mark.
I don't know if it's implied somewhere in
the comments above but I
think that, as a user coming from the Windows and recently Mac world
that making sure pretty much everything out there that gets linked on
a web page should be able to play from in the browser you are using.
There are some strange aspects about mplayer and web browsers, at
least on my systems, which can end up with multiple mp3's playing at
the same time. Stuff like starting an mp3/ogg/xxx file playing, and
then hitting the back button, should stop the audio, or if it doesn't,
hitting another audio link should stop the previous one from playing.
Because the Linux browsers are garbage. For some reason the people who
develop them worry about bullshit like extensions and toolbars and
making sure the apps are translated into Xhosa than fixing basic
usability bugs like this.
Simple things don't even work, like, if I click a media link that opens
an external player, then it finishes playing, then I click another link,
rather than opening in the same player it launches a new one.
Eventually I have 50 media players open.
Lee