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1. § John Dowdell said on : 09/01/07 @ 13:20
   The rendering engine behind MSIE is indeed packaged as an ActiveX Control, and can be invoked by other applications on the system. (ie, such a thing *does* exist! ;-)
   
   I'm not sure why you'd see that alert on that page, however. I visited that same page in FF1.5x/WinXP and it couldn't play the video, said it required a QT component which wasn't available from the QuickTime servers. Maybe it's the error messages themselves which are in error...?
   
   jd
2. § Richard Leggett® said on : 09/01/07 @ 13:22
   Thanks for dropping by JD. I'm sure there was a perfectly valid reason for seeing it, I just found it quite funny, especially as that is the very ActiveX control that IE uses for rendering HTML anyway.
3. § JesterXL said on : 09/01/07 @ 14:11
   Didn't get the error in Firefox 1.5, but did get it in IE7. Was using IE7 to go look at the .mov's in the browser cache (since they are encrypted in Firefox) and see if they had a Flash track (as opposed to the .mov's really being digital video).
   
   Said I didn't have Quicktime. Download and run; "Already have latest version installed, can't continue installer." Huh?
   
   Run IE7 again. I remember that sometimes you can click the yellow bar up top to "make things run". Did so. Page refreshes.
   
   Alert again... this time, though, it says Quicktime, not the HTML viewer. That time it ran.
   
   ...bloody...hell... IE blows.
4. § Matthew Warneford said on : 09/01/07 @ 14:15
   Rich, I switched to Mac when the intel Mac Book Pros launched. I love it, we now have half the office on macs... some have even bought them for home use. Go for it - every day Im happier in every way because I use mac. We'll, nearly!
5. § Richard Leggett® said on : 09/01/07 @ 14:22
   Jesse, you had an even more fun experience than me!
   
   Matt, so good to hear from you it's been years! I think it's a done deal really, I just need to make sure I have all bases covered. If Vista runs with hardware support through a future version of bootcamp, parallels, coherence et al I have even less to worry about. Well it's that or switch to using an Atari ST...winner.
6. § Tim Hodges said on : 09/01/07 @ 15:14
   Rich,
   
   I swear if you don't switch to a mac I will come round and beat you death with my ibook! But in all seriousness whilist working with Flash, Dreamweaver, etc at University we always used macs. I found them to be stable, easy to use, damn quick and...I don't know Dreamweaver certainly seemed to feel a better product on the Mac compared to the clunky feeling PC version I know use. It may just be Mac tinted glasses but I'd like to recommend that you go for it buddy.
   
   
7. § C4RL05 said on : 09/01/07 @ 16:58
   AmigaOS was so cool!
8. § Emmanuel Okyere said on : 10/01/07 @ 02:30
   yeah yeah; you call me a fanboy but the mpb club is still accepting applicants ;P
   
   http://eokyere.blogspot.com/2006/10/mbp-club.html
   
9. § Jon Harris said on : 18/01/07 @ 11:38
   Hey Richard, Vista runs with full hardware support today. I'm running on a MacBook Pro and my performance ratings are:
   
   Processor: 4.8
   Memory: 4.9
   Graphics: 4.1
   Gaming graphics: 4.5
   Primary Disk: 4.9
   
   Jon Harris
   Microsoft UXe
10. § Richard Leggett® said on : 18/01/07 @ 14:28
    Hi Jon, that's fantastic news. It's really good to be able to pick and choose hardware like that without having to get locked into any OS.

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