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Preview Quartz Composer (.qtz) files in Safari
Authored by: asmeurer on Thu, Jan 31 2008 at 2:43PM PST

If you choose installed plugins from the Safari Help menu, you will se that there is a separate "Quartz Composer Plug-in" (search for "qtz") not associated with Quicktime.

Preview Quartz Composer (.qtz) files in Safari
Authored by: Asmus Vierck on Thu, Jan 31 2008 at 4:36PM PST

Quartz Compositions get rendered locally on your Mac. There is no way to get any data back to a server, the only known hole that allowed that was a bug in QuickTime for Java, and was fixed back in 2006. As far as I know, Safari uses the Quartz Engine directy, though other apps can access Quartz also through QuickTime. If you´re interested in this, I highly recommend the famous iSight prank of 2006: