Re: Droste and Berber in rehearsal -- be good for Safari -- add a .htaccess to your website

This should be doable at the Safari end; I don't have access to the root
of the website for one thing, and the mp4 is now the standard extension
just about everywhere; it's even being used professionally. With PCs, all=

of this is completely configurable by going into file extensions - in
other words .mp4 is associated with Quicktime (although on PCs you don't
have to do that) - are you sure this isn't possible on Macs? And why would=

a Mac read a dot-file on the site root anyway? It would just access the
.mp4 file itself - Safari wouldn't be looking for anything else. And if it=

was, why couldn't that be placed natively on the Mac?

This is too weird since Quicktime has pushed .mp4 and yet they're
basically Mac/Apple.

- Alan, confused


On Sat, 3 Feb 2007, Geert Dekkers wrote:

> Hi
>
> I use Safari, and while it does most things a browser should do, it
> renders .mp4 files horribly. Problem is that a ".txt" extension is
> appended to the mp4 file, so Safari renders us a text version of the
> mp4. Mostly, that isn't what the author intended.
>
> There is something to be done about it, but that something is to be
> done by the author on the website. It implies adding a so-called
> ".htaccess" file (note the dot preceding the file name) to the root
> of the site. Or editing the file if it already exists.
>
> .htaccess is a text file. It should contain the following:
>
> AddType audio/mpeg mp3
> AddType audio/mp4 mp4
>
> Might be common knowledge, but I thought I might share this just in
> case.
>
> Geert
>
> Geert Dekkers—————————
> http://nznl.com | http://nznl.org | http://nznl.net
> —————————————
>
>
>
> On 3/02/2007, at 7:48 AM, Alan Sondheim wrote:
>
>>
>> It should play in Quicktime - it's using Quicktime codices (H 264)-
>> Alan
>>
>>
>> On Fri, 2 Feb 2007, Dr. T. Michael Roberts wrote:
>>
>>> Alan,
>>> I

I added the .htaccess at the asondheim root (which you won't see I think)=

and in the public\_html directory (which you might see) - that's all I can=

do at this end. Let me know if it makes any difference.

Thanks, Alan


On Sat, 3 Feb 2007, Geert Dekkers wrote:

> Hi
>
> I use Safari, and while it does most things a browser should do, it
> renders .mp4 files horribly. Problem is that a ".txt" extension is
> appended to the mp4 file, so Safari renders us a text version of the
> mp4. Mostly, that isn't what the author intended.
>
> There is something to be done about it, but that something is to be
> done by the author on the website. It implies adding a so-called
> ".htaccess" file (note the dot preceding the file name) to the root
> of the site. Or editing the file if it already exists.
>
> .htaccess is a text file. It should contain the following:
>
> AddType audio/mpeg mp3
> AddType audio/mp4 mp4
>
> Might be common knowledge, but I thought I might share this just in
> case.
>
> Geert
>
> Geert Dekkers—————————
> http://nznl.com | http://nznl.org | http://nznl.net
> —————————————
>
>
>
> On 3/02/2007, at 7:48 AM, Alan Sondheim wrote:
>
>>
>> It should play in Quicktime - it's using Quicktime codices (H 264)-
>> Alan
>>
>>
>> On Fri, 2 Feb 2007, Dr. T. Michael Roberts wrote:
>>
>>> Alan,
>>> I