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Tag this with send-me-the-codez if you will. I've been asked to assist in putting a Quicktime VR thingy (for lack of better term. movie? applet?) in an HTML page. How would I go about this? Pointers to examples online are most appreciated.

Note: I checked out Apple's iPhone 360-degree views, which (I think) are the only examples of QuickTime VR that I've seen on the internets. The Apple specimens are laden with JavaScript and seem like terrible overkill.

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As far as I'm aware embedding QTVR is just the same as embedding a QT video, eg:

<object classid="clsid:02BF25D5-8C17-4B23-BC80-D3488ABDDC6B" width="..." height="...">
    <param name="src" value="....mov">
    <param name="autoplay" value="true">
    <param name="controller" value="true">

    <embed src="....mov" width="..." height="..." autoplay="true" controller="true"></embed>
</object>
bobince
Is the `classid` really meaningful? I googled for this value and found that it tells IE to use a "`Quicktime ActiveX control`". What about other browsers? Is this value universal across all of them?
Max A.
No, other browsers will use the `embed` instead. Ideally both the object-with-classid and the embed should be replaced by a single, standards-compliant object-with-type element, but this has not historically been well-supported by IE. I haven't tried for QT, but certainly with Flash it has the problem of not being able to begin playing a partially-downloaded file.
bobince