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Open Questions

• See RESIZING below: how to I resize our NSView in the plug-in?
• can I put our view in the Accessibility loop of the page? If so, how? What’s our parent element?
• How can I e-mail replies to Lighthouse discussions? Using the links in the e-mails creates a bounce for me.
• What’s the point of that flickr variable and the 10% difference? I dumped it in my branch and it didn’t hurt.

Todo, Bugs & Ideas

• RESIZING: after creating our QTMovieView make sure we resize our DOM element to match the QTMovieView’s exact aspect ratio. (This avoids ugly letterboxing and our buttons being half on the film and half on the background of the webpage). One can resize our view easily but it’s returned to its original size by the surrounding page after some clicking. I also wouldn’t want to explictly set a px width/height for our DOMElement as that would break flexible layouts using something like 100%.

• Figure out what to do about X.4 COMPATIBILITY (the QTMovie stuff won’t work there properly). (ssp: I don’t run X.4, so I’m not interested. I also think that if we want to keep X.4, there needs to be a tester for it.)

• REMOVE SLOGAN from About box? (silly, even more so in localisations)

• Add contributor names to ABOUT BOX (it’s good for my ego, and other people like Ronald [fr localisation] or Henrik [design advice] also contributed without being acknowledged at the moment)

• Make action menu more sensible in QT version.

• Prettier GLOSS overlay for Movies (contacted Henrik, much better already, more ideas coming, any comments?)

• Website improvement suggestions

• Dragging an URL from the d/l button would be nice, but it didn’t work for me (an NSButton seems to suppress mouseDragged: so one would need to do the whole mouse handling manually.

• Using bindings and making the interdependencies of variables clear might clean things up.

Done

• LOCALISATION for QTMovie stuff

• Improved handling of Embedded YouTube: It didn’t find H264 on many pages recently (eg http://www.scienceblogs.de/mathlog/2009/10/mathematik-zum-anfassen-auf-youtube.php http://www.fakesteve.net/2009/10/mosspuppet-claims-hes-sabotaged.html
  http://www.fscklog.com/2009/10/drei-neue-get-a-mac-ads-zum-start-von-windows-7-videos.html )

• DOWNLOAD BUTTON
• Leave full screen mode by pressing ESCAPE (figure out why that doesn’t work)
• investigate & fix what happens when the HD button is clicked several times
• HD Button
• Use QTMovieView to play films (getting this to work requires core animation)
• Prepare for having more buttons (e.g. fullscreen)
• Add action menu as a proper button

Not happening

• consider FADING out buttons (I don’t think actually I want this, I hate it in QT Player X)