Posted by dorayme on 08/02/05 03:09

> From: "bunch92@yahoo.fr" <bunch92@yahoo.fr>
>
> Hi again,
>
> The problem with my code was on the following line :
> <PARAM NAME="fileName"
> VALUE="http://www.perignon.co.uk/fr/lessonbeg/sound/o.mp3">
>
> When replaced with :
> <PARAM NAME="fileName" VALUE="./fr/lessonbeg/sound/o.mp3">
>
>
> The sound plays !!!! (I am using IE6)
>
> And the <OBJECT><PARAM> tags are not proprietary (unlike bgsound) so it
> should work in most of the browsers ....
>
> Can you guys try
> http://www.perignon.co.uk/testmp3.html
> and tell me if it works for you please ?
>

Does not work in any of my browsers, it may not be your fault? You
specify Windows Media Player and there are issues here. I was able to
get the sound by going to the source at
http://70.84.175.210/~perigno/fr/lessonbeg/sound/o.mp3 and it then
played in my browser window in Quicktime. With a movie bar and sound
controls and all that palava to hear the nice short vowel. Perhaps
Spartanicus should conduct a survey of how this would go down generally
with folks... I'd say, 98.2 percent would be pissed off... (relax
Spartinacus, just pulling your chain.... :).

There may be some moral in this. This construction of yours is demanding
a particular player on the original page and I for one have some issues
re this. The beauty of the embed is that it just bloody well played!

I use Mozilla WamCom1.3, IE 5.1.6, iCab 3 which may be enough reason to
ignore me. There may be other reasons too!

Your code is not kosher (I am not talking about the particular sound bit
here). No doc title, no Doctype, not to say about the deprecated
tags...) Just thought you might want to fix this up. You really don't
need so much stuff, tables and divs and deprecated things like font
tags.

dorayme

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