On 10/2/06, Jay R. Ashworth <jra(a)baylink.com> wrote:
That answer *sounds* like it implies that such a
server-provided player
would *override* a locally installed player, thus (as so often happens)
penalizing the smart people in favor of the stupid ones.
Is that actually what it implies?
Yuck, no.
The extension gives you the option to play in your browser, the click
to download/play locally link will remain.
If you have the appropriate extension for native inline playing (the
VLC extension, or some future firefox Ogg support that we muse about
getting mozilla to include) it will be used when you activate the
inline player. Iff you ask for inline playback and you do not have
the approiate extension installed you will then be given the server
provided Java based player.
For most of Wikimedia's uses inline use is probably the most useful
and expected behavior (since the audio / video is part of the content
of the pages, just like with images)... but it wouldn't make any sense
to change things in a way which precludes non-inline use and it
certantly wouldn't make any sense to use a java based player over a
native one.