On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 8:42 PM, Dennis Coonich <dennis.coonich(a)comcast.net>wrote;wrote: Thanks! That was sort of the "demo"/proof-of-concept version... i'm working on an update that should be more useful, and with 500+ NPR feeds including affiliate stations, a better selection/search mechanism using Exhibit ( e.g. http://simile-widgets.org/exhibit/examples/presidents/presidents.html ), etc. Wr/t your applet question, here's what I've found, and why I didn't bother with applets: Bottom line: applets cause problems and user complaints. Flash doesn't. For example: there's potential issues with IE & Java, if you use JMF in your applet ( http://java.sun.com/javase/technologies/desktop/media/jmf/2.1.1/guide/JMFAp…), then you need to specially install the JMF jar on your browser ( http://java.sun.com/javase/technologies/desktop/media/jmf/2.1.1/jmfdiagnost…). The lack of an easy "one click" means of install (like w/ flash) to get JMF and Java installed multiplatform and consistently -- is a showstopper. At least for windows and IE, there's the "JMF Windows Performance Pack": http://www.flumotion.net/cortado/ is sort of typical with what happens with video and applets. The page for the applet states to look at http://www.flumotion.com site to see the applet in action. And yet, all the video playing on the company's site is now done with flash and they're no longer using the applet. If you get anything working and integrated with Xwiki for media applets, please share. The more the merrier. What would be best is to have an overarching "smart" mechanism for detecting media playback capabilities, and determining the most optimal strategy "dynamically" based on client platform/plugins and media type/quality of streaming media for display. On Apr 10 I alluded to this in a message "integrating media streaming with xwiki? (was Re: [xwiki-devs] Problems with scripting)" ( http://www.mail-archive.com/devs@xwiki.org/msg08533.html ) It would be nice to have a truly abstract streaming media macro that would Due to the near ubiquitous installation of Itunes/Quicktime on most mac/windows systems -- the ability to automatically detect Quicktime plugin presence in the browser and determine if media is compatible would be a great feature to have in this "abstract/smart streaming macro" -- Niels http://nielsmayer.com