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QuickTime and JavaScript

Recent versions of the QuickTime plug-in are fully scriptable using JavaScript in most browsers for the Mac OS and Windows.

There are a few different way to use JavaScript with QuickTime: you can use JavaScript to detect whether QuickTime is installed; you can use JavaScript to write the OBJECT and EMBED tags used to display QuickTime content; and you can control the QuickTime plug-in directly using JavaScript.

The QuickTime browser plug-in comes in multiple flavors. There are traditional Netscape-style plug-ins for the Mac OS and Windows, COM objects and ActiveX controls for Internet Explorer on Windows, and a Cocoa plug-in for Safari. All of these plug-ins present the exact same interfaces to JavaScript, as described in this document.

In addition to the QuickTime browser plug-in, QuickTime 7 and later include an ActiveX control that is scriptable using the COM interface from Visual Basic, JavaScript, or C#. That ActiveX control is not the same as the ActiveX version of the QuickTime browser plug-in. This document describes the JavaScript interface to QuickTime browser plug-ins, for client-side scripts running in a browser. If you want to develop Windows desktop applications or server-side scripts on the Windows OS using JavaScript and QuickTime, see QuickTime 7 for Windows Update Guide.

Contents:

Using JavaScript to Detect QuickTime
Using JavaScript to Embed QuickTime Content
Executing JavaScript Functions From QuickTime
Controlling QuickTime Using JavaScript
QuickTime DOM Events
QuickTime JavaScript Reference

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