ITV Catchup Video player

[MarcLister]

Anyone used the above? Just tried it now with IE7 and it just won't work. I'll try to play something and IE7 seems to freeze up.

[LeperousDust]

It would seem they've coded something wrong within flash i think...
I get 60kb in and nothing happens...

[MarcLister]

Using what browser? Nothing happens in Opera for me. FF provokes some compatability chart and IE7 just freezes.

[LeperousDust]

Works for me in Opera, but as i say it just stops 60kb in. Something is obviously wrong, IE can't handle whatever they've fecked up, whereas Opera is just ignoring it...

[MarcLister]

Nothing for me in Opera last time I tried. :(

[MarcLister]

Yeah. Thing is that it doesn't work for me. :(

[LeperousDust]

Well no, loads of sites say they only work with IE, but thats just lazy coders, 9 times out of 10 (basically as long as its roughly standards complient and doesnt rely on activeX) anything will work with opera and/or firefox. Sometimes you just have to tell opera to mask itself as FF/IE and things magically work (this really annoys me, and google are pretty much famous for this).

Marc, it doesn't work with your Opera cause i suspect you're using the stable? Whereas i'm using the nightly beta, there will be a huge difference due to rendering engines...

[MarcLister]

I was more responding to the opera uses tbh as to explain why they can't play it. :)

Do you have Windows Media Player 9 with active x enabled and Flash 8?WMP11. ActiveX should be enabled but I will check. Er will check on Flash version. Should be latest mind.

Well no, loads of sites say they only work with IE, but thats just lazy coders, 9 times out of 10 (basically as long as its roughly standards complient and doesnt rely on activeX) anything will work with opera and/or firefox. Sometimes you just have to tell opera to mask itself as FF/IE and things magically work (this really annoys me, and google are pretty much famous for this).The site I'm replacing with my final year project hates Opera. The drop-down menus won't appear unless I make Opera mask as FF or IE. Needless to say my version doesn't have that problem. :D What is this Google problem then? :huh:

Marc, it doesn't work with your Opera cause i suspect you're using the stable? Whereas i'm using the nightly beta, there will be a huge difference due to rendering engines...Surprise, surprise! :D

I am using 9.26 yes.

[MarcLister]

Still not working.

[LeperousDust]

WMP11. ActiveX should be enabled but I will check. Er will check on Flash version. Should be latest mind.

The site I'm replacing with my final year project hates Opera. The drop-down menus won't appear unless I make Opera mask as FF or IE. Needless to say my version doesn't have that problem. :D What is this Google problem then? :huh:

Surprise, surprise! :D

I am using 9.26 yes.
Make opera mask as FF or IE then, its on a site by site basis, right click edit *site* preferences :) There are a few sites myself that see opera and just tell me to get FF or IE without even trying to render properly...
Gmail, google calendar, loads of google products don't work correctly within opera, and theres only google to blame.

[MarcLister]

Make opera mask as FF or IE then, its on a site by site basis, right click edit *site* preferences :) There are a few sites myself that see opera and just tell me to get FF or IE without even trying to render properly...Ahem. I know how to do this. :p

Gmail, google calendar, loads of google products don't work correctly within opera, and theres only google to blame.Work ok for me unless I'm missing something?

[LeperousDust]

Gmail 2.0 doesn't work well, and initially gmail wasn't an opera fan, doc and spreadsheets were troubleshome same with the calendar. The opera team have to add little hacks that make them it act more like FF generally because google rely on some of the non standards compliance of FF or something (i can't remember exactly). They all work now, and with some UserJS gmail 2.0 works fine too, but when google roll these out they *should* be able to work with Opera and achieve what they want but they generally ignore opera.

[LeperousDust]

Read this (http://operawatch.com/news/2007/04/update-how-to-make-google-services-opera-friendly.html)


“…the severe shortness of a script that fixes all functionality issues with Google docs, Google spreadsheets, Picasa, and Google calendar should be telling. That Google, one of the biggest companies around can’t find the time to test in Opera is shocking; that one man working alone can write a 140 line (including comments) script consisting of a handful of simple fixes should reflect far, far worse on Google than it does on Opera. Especially when you consider that they somehow find the time to work past IE innumerable flaws.”