yozlet hates software: back to easier targets

• From: Yoz Grahame
  Date: 15:25 on 27 Apr 2005
  Subject: back to easier targets
  
  ... namely RealPlayer 10 on Windows.
  
  In the "Open" dialog, try giving it a URL pointing at a standard Real .rpm =
  file.
  
  Had you been ludicrously over-optimistic, you'd have thought that
  RealPlayer would grab the file, read the RTSP URL inside it and then
  play from that.
  
  What it will actually do is suddenly widen the window to accomodate
  its internal Internet Explorer browser control, which it then uses to
  grab the .rpm file, which it doesn't know what to do with, so it asks
  me if I want to save it.
  
  This is incompetence bordering on genius, and all I can do is sit
  quietly in awe.
  
  -- Yoz
  
  

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