Launching QuickTime Player
It's possible to write HTML that will play your QuickTime movies (or other media files) in the QuickTime Player application instead of the plug-in. This is handy, because QuickTime Player can do some things that the plug-in can't, such as playing movies in full-screen mode.
The usual way to launch QuickTime Player is to use a poster movie--a QuickTime movie, usually a single image, that launches QuickTime Player in response to a mouse click. The poster can also be set to launch QuickTime Player automatically, without requiring a mouse click.
Starting with QuickTime 5, it's possible to launch QuickTime Player directly from a text link, which is sometimes preferable to a poster movie.
Let's take a look at both methods.
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