Email conversation
| From | Charles Robertson |
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| To | Me |
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| Subject | Opera 8.53 browser and embedded QuickTime movie |
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| Date | 25 January 2007 20:32 |
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Dear Mark
I have a small problem.
I have embedded a quicktime movie in a 'standard' webpage.
I have created a button that is meant to play the movie using a quicktime
scriptable javascript command:
someMovieObject.Play();
When I open a new browser in Opera 8.53, using Windows XP Pro SP2, and I
press the play button, the movie plays fine. Infact, I can press the play
button, several times and it plays the movie fine, each time.
If I reload or refresh the browser and then press the play button, I get the
following error in the javascript console:
Untitled
[URL]
Event thread: click
Error:
name: TypeError
message: Statement on line 69: Type mismatch (usually a non-object value
used where an object is required)
Backtrace:
Line 69 of linked script [URL]
oQtp.Play();
Line 1 of script
playMovie();
At unknown location
[statement source code not available]
Have you any idea, what is behind this problem? I have heard that it may be
something to do with the browser losing sight of the fact that the embed
object is just that, and not a string object, but I have no real idea, to be
honest!
Thanks for your time & patience in advance.
Best wishes...
Charlie
| From | Me |
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| To | Charles Robertson |
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| Subject | Re: Opera 8.53 browser and embedded QuickTime movie |
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| Date | 27 January 2007 11:03 |
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Charlie,
> If I reload or refresh the browser and then press the play
> button, I get the following error in the javascript console:
Opera 8 used an older plugin API, which had quite a few similar problems.
Opera 9 uses the new plugin API, and has several fixes for these sort of
bugs. I cannot reproduce the problem in Opera 9. I suggest you ignore Opera
8 since it is no longer the current version of Opera (not so for devices,
but they would not usually have quicktime anyway). Users of Opera 8 should
upgrade to Opera 9.
Mark 'Tarquin' Wilton-Jones - author of http://www.howtocreate.co.uk/