Re: FLASH: Balthasar and .swf in QT

[John Dowdell]

At 9:35 AM 11/18/99, Jefferis wrote:

> Although the file downloaded as an .swf, it had the QuickTime

> Icon on my desk. I double clicked and Voila! It opens and

> plays in QT. Is that normal?  Is QT now Flash capable?


What you describe is possible. There are couple of things that would

contribute there:


--  Yes, on a QT4-enhanced system, you can have QuickTime render SWF 3 content.


--  When you download a file to the Mac, it may have FILETYPE/CREATOR info

attached, or it may only have a file extension. Different systems have

different ways of recognizing files.


--  When you doubleclick a SWF it will often pull up a Flash player (not

the Flash authoring application). Some systems can be set up to call

QuickTime instead.


Rephrased, what you saw can be seen on some-but-not-all computers, for

some-but-not-all file transfers.




> ...that made me realize that Flash on the net seems much slower.  Or

> is that a function of 56k connections?


Well, if your modem is streaming, then that's an additional processor

drain. But note that the browsers themselves are a processor drain...

challenging pieces can often play faster as a Projector than as a guest in

the browser.


jd






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