Posted by JH on 03/25/07 16:58

On Mar 25, 2:12 am, "fuli open" <fulio...@yahoo.com> wrote:
> I am writing an online English-Chinese dictionary, and there are sound
> files for the Chinese words. When the sound file is played on the IE
> browser, a Windows Media Player always comes up, covering the whole
> screen. I wonder whether it is possible that the sound is played
> without the appearance of the the Windows Media Player on the screen.
> So the visitor can look at the words while listenig to the sound.
>
> When opened with the Firefox browser, I am always asked that whether I
> want to play the sound with the Windows Media Player. I have to
> confirm to have the sound to be played. And the Windows Media Player
> will also cover the whole screen. I wonder whether the sound can be
> played directly. Following is the web page:
>
> http://www.pinyinology.com/zhongwen/frame_a.html
>
> Sorry for the foreign pronunciations.

http://www.javascripter.net/faq/sound/play.htm

The above link may help you. It relies on Javascript. There is one
example where you click on a button to start and another to stop.

[Back to original message]