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[Phys-L] Re: Use the Source, Luke



The only reliable way to deal with wmv files on a mac is to get a copy
of Snapz Pro X and do screen movie capture.

Hours wasted fiddling with many different codec binaries trying to
guess how any given wmv was encoded replaced by one piece of elegant
software.

IMHO
Scott


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Scott Goelzer
Physics Teacher
Coe-Brown Northwood Academy
Northwood NH 03261
s.goelzer@comcast.net
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On Jun 10, 2005, at 5:36 PM, Bernard Cleyet wrote:

"Viewing the Message Source for HTML Messages

You can quickly view the HTML and other code that generates an HTML
message you've received:

1. In the message list window, open the message.
2. Open the View menu and choose Message Source.

Tip: To control how Mail displays HTML messages, open the View menu,
and
choose Message Body As, and then choose Original HTML, Simple HTML, or
Plain Text."



Oh, I thought you meant the URL to whose link I was viewing (or a
further up (down) the tree, not source code.


OK, so apple U pages the code

apple f gives find text window; search for .wmv to find all the movies.

It worked!!!!

bc, who wonders why he can't find the "link" to the movee on the page.

p.s. as he wrote, it's well hidden among the soft core porn.

John Denker wrote:

On 06/10/05 12:04, Bernard Cleyet wondered:

what source is.


Source (of an HTML page) is the HTML itself, as
opposed to the result you get when the HTML is
rendered and displayed on your screen.

If you're running firefox, you can view the
page source by going to the View menu and
selecting Page Source. I can't say for sure
how to do this in MSIE, but I'll bet it's
similar. If your browser doesn't make it
easy to look at the source, throw it out and
get a better browser.

On my machine, my browser doesn't have a
plugin that will play .wmv files, *and* I
have javascript turned off for security
reasons ... so there is no way I'm gonna
see any .wmv stuff embedded in HTML pages ...
unless I read the HTML source and find the
URL of the media file itself ... as I did
for the snowboarding file.

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More generally, consider the following query:

Q: "I really like the looks of that page over
there; I wonder how they did that".

A: Read the source for that page already. You
can see for yourself how they did it. This is
usually better & quicker than reading manuals.
HTML is reasonably readable, and was very explicitly
*intended* to be so, according to Tim Berners-Lee.

Some tools (I'm thinking of frontpage and winword in
particular) write nasty unreadble HTML ... which is
one of many reasons for avoiding those tools.

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BTW you should remind your students that TBL was a
physics major, and was working at CERN when he
invented HTML, web browsers, and all that.


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