Just for discussion - Lack of apps to leverage the power of Quicktime.

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Folks, I just was really interested in hearing from the community about their interest in an app that really leverages all of the capabilities of Quicktime; particularly as a interactive medium.
I've only really found LiveStage Pro and Metadata Hootenanny to let me into Quicktime more than Quicktime Pro. I started this discussion because I was looking for something (on another post) that allowed me to leverage Quicktime in some similar was to Flash which I am not a fan of, but do acknowledge it's versatility and widespread use. See this interesting article:
http://blog.vrarchitect.net/post/2008/04/18/challenge-to-the-flash-community-Qui cktime-is-better-than-Flash
Just for the sake of discussion, I'd love to hear your opinion on this - why Apple hasn't developed an app to really leverage Quicktime, if there are other apps than the two I mentioned above, wanting to be able to use Quicktime on the web just like Flash (or close to it). I really wish Quicktime was as embedded in browsers for instance as Flash seems to be. I always want to setup sites with Quicktime as my media of choice, but Flash seems to offer the interactive features that people want and are used to. This is a frustrating decision.
Hopefully, I am wrong about a lot of my perceptions and you all can shed some light on this discussions
For the record - I miss Cyberdog - for those of you who know what that is.
Get well Steve!

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why Apple hasn't developed an app to really leverage Quicktime, if there are other apps than the two I mentioned above, wanting to be able to use Quicktime on the web just like Flash (or close to it).
While I can't speak for the QuickTime product managers, it's clear to me that QuickTime has never been viewed as or designed to be an system for providing interactivity. Though some interactive capabilities exist, QT is really designed as a playback system. It's just a different product/market view. Flash was intended from it's inception as an interactive platform; it's just been recently that Macromedia and now Adobe have been trying to force Flash into the realm of being a more general playback platform.
For interactivity, Apple is advocating using web-standard techniques, particularly AJAX and SproutCore and so is very unlikely to attempt to add additional capabilities for interactivity to QuickTime itself.
I really wish Quicktime was as embedded in browsers for instance as Flash seems to be.
QT is just as embedded in browsers as Flash is. Both require the player plugin to be installed before a web browser can handle the media. I've not seen any browser with Flash support built in; they all use Adobe's plugin (I haven't even seen a browser distribution that bundles the plugin).
I miss Cyberdog - for those of you who know what that is.
An interesting concept but never really finished and saddled with the same sort of issues that OpenDoc had in general; way too complex to program for and an unclear concept on what the benefits really were over traditional application engineering. Many of the proposed benefits of component reuse were made unnecessary by the rapid increase in computer processing power and the equally rapid decrease in the cost of memory and storage (which has led unfortunately to some really sloppy programming techniques).