free ebook and tutorial - JavaScript Scripting Guide for QuickTime

JavaScript can interact with QuickTime invarious ways. You can use JavaScript in a browser to detect Whether QuickTime is installed, you can use JavaScript to create the tags used to embed QuickTime content in a webpage, and you can use JavaScript to query and control the QuickTime plug-indirectly. This document describes client-side scripting using JavaScript and QuickTime browser plug-ins. All QuickTime browser plug-ins expose the exact same interfaces to JavaScript, whether the plug-in Is an Active Xcontrol, a Cocoa plug-in, or a Netscape-styleplug-in, allowing the same script to operate identically for Internet Explorer, Safari, FireFox, Mozilla, and other browsers that support plug-in scripting. Browsers that support the W3CsDOM Level 3 specification can receive DOM events from QuickTime, allowing movie events to trigger JavaScript functions without having to set timers or poll QuickTime for status events

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