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Posted by dorayme on 11/23/73 11:40
In article <43f9ecb9$0$25090$cb0e7fc6@news.centralva.net>,
"Jonathan N. Little" <lws4art@centralva.net> wrote:
> dorayme wrote:
> > http://dorayme.150m.com/test/piano.html
> >
> > The midi sound file just plays fine in IE (Mac) 5. That is, it
> > just plays, there being no visual items generated from the object
> > tag. It even plays in Netscape 4 but with this old browser, there
> > is a discrete tiny control visual for vol, stop, start...
> >
> > But not in any of my modern browsers on Mac OS X like Safari,
> > Mozilla, iCab .... does anything soundlike happen. These do
> > silence extremely well mind you! In Safari, the QT logo -
> > unwelcomed - comes up big and that's it!
> >
> > Any ideas about how to make the browsers play the sound without
> > changing the mark up? But, I will change the mark up and fiddle
> > faddle about if I have to. One can see from simple examples like
> > this the great strength and beauty of the older IE, it could bend
> > with the wind, intuitively just do things one wanted...
> >
>
> Works in my Moz 1.7.12 & FF1.5.0.1, it only a MIDI file so it is handled
> by the QuickTime (I use QuickTime_Alternative) Plugin. Problem with your
> plugin?
Yes, this did cross my mind re Safari... I can generally work
these things out or use other browsers. But most people would not
know a plugin from a font. Generally speaking if you go into home
after home, you will see that very few folk have their plugins
right! That is my experience at least. I am pleased and surprised
when I see things in multimedia simply work on other people's
computers.
The main thing is it seems my simple 'object' mark-up falls way
short of reliable across browsers in the real world. Pity. (As it
happens, it was for a very light unimportant private site purpose)
--
dorayme
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