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Article:		Two Slick QuickTime Tricks
Subject:		HREF/target parameters and qt gallery
Date:		2009-07-16 21:09:31
From:		Brandon Morris
So your saying I can have one main QuickTime player and below that a grid of small thumbnails or poster movies? And when viewers click on these poster movies they will load on that main QuickTime player? And not load a second page? Or will they play on the same place as the poster movie? Because I've just been trying to figure out a way to have one main QuickTime player on a video page and have either text titles or thumbnails below the QT player for viewers to choose from. I've been wanting to come back to QT from Flash.

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• HREF/target parameters and qt gallery
  2009-07-17 17:29:22  Brandon Morris [View]
  
  
  i'm a little confused now.
  
  say i have 3 movie posters lined up on a page.
  and one main player above the 3 posters.
  what do i do to make the poster movies not play on them selves but above in the main player? kind of like a flash player.
  (awful example below)
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• HREF/target parameters and qt gallery
  2009-07-17 18:39:19  David Battino | [View]
  
  
  See the "multiple movies, one player" example in the other article. Or make an iframe with the same dimensions as your movie, name it stage (name="stage"), and then add target="stage" to the thumbnail links:
  
<a href="movie1.mov" target="stage"><img src="poster1.gif" /></a>

• HREF/target parameters and qt gallery
  2009-07-17 10:29:40  David Battino | [View]
  
  
  Yep. I share a technique for that in my followup article, "QuickTime Web Movie Secrets" (http://www.oreillynet.com/pub/a/oreilly/digitalmedia/2007/07/16/quicktime-web-movie-secrets.html). You could also create an iframe for the "stage" and then direct each movie link to open in it.
• HREF/target parameters and qt gallery
  2009-07-17 17:13:20  Brandon Morris [View]
  
  
  I'm about to cry! Thank you! I've been looking for this kind of info for so long!