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Providing a Seamless Experience in Internet Explorer

Recent versions of Internet Explorer for Windows do not display embedded QuickTime content immediately, but instead present the user with a dialog box similar to the one shown below.

After the user clicks OK, the QuickTime ActiveX control loads, and the media plays (if the AUTOPLAY parameter is set True) but the user must still press the spacebar or Enter key in order to interact with the movie controller.

It is possible to prevent this dialog box from appearing, and also possible to activate the QuckTime movie controller for interaction immediately, without requiring the user to first push a key. The simplest way to accomplish this is to use the Apple-provided JavaScript to generate the <OBJECT> and <EMBED> tags at runtime. See “Doing It the Easy Way.”

Alternatively, you can include a JavaScript file of your own that uses the document.write() function to generate the required <OBJECT> and <EMBED> tags. Note that it is strongly recommended that the JavaScript code reside in an external file, not as in-line JavaScript within the HTML page itself.

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