Posted by the idiot on 08/04/05 13:41

"Spartanicus" <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote in message
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> bunch92 <bunch92@yahoo.fr> wrote:
>
> >Following your advice on a previous post, I coded the following to play
> >a WAV sound :
> >
> ><a href="http://site/file.wav">listen</a>
> >
> >
> >It behaves differently om my 2 PCs.
> >On PC1 (GOOD) , it opens my sound application, plays the sound, and the
> >HTML page stays the same
> >On PC2,(BAD) it uses Quicktime, plays the sound, but my HTML page is
> >changed to a Quicktime player !!!
> >
> >I tried :
> >
> ><a href="http://site/file.wav" target="blank">listen</a>
> >
> >On PC1 (BAD), it opens a new blank page (annoying), plays the sound, and
> >the original HTML page stays the same
> >On PC2 (GOOD), it opens a new page with Quicktime, plays the sound, and
> >my original HTML page stays the same
> >
> >
> >Is there a way to code the above so that both PCs have consistent
> >results ? I don't want to change the PC configs as my site could be
> >accessed with PC1 type users or PC2 type users.
>
> You've still not grasped the nettle, users use different browsers, they
> configure those browsers differently, they may use certain plugins, or
> not, or they may have certain media players, or not. You cannot control
> any of this. It's your responsibility to present the content properly,
> from there on it's the user's responsibility.
>
> Quicktime is a particularly nasty piece of work, it aggressively
> attempts to seize control over all media types that it supports, across
> all applications that it supports. It's know to change content type
> handlers from applications that natively support the content to
> Quicktime. This can for example result in pngs opening in Quicktime
> instead of the browser.
>
> You cannot force what happens on a user's system, attempting to do so
> will only result in making your content unusable on other systems.
>
> What you can do is offer a help page for known problems where you can
> explain how the user can fix a misconfigured system.
>
> --
> Spartanicus

sir, i am (hopefully if given the go-ahead )about to provide a link (via a
m3u file) so folk can stream a mp3
im also going to give them the option to download the mp3
would the (m3u) streaming work for a mac or would i have to do something
else?
sorry i cant be more precise
the m3u file will say (and i will hit return at the end of the code as you
mentioned somewhere else...)

http://www.wreckingballpress.com/cd/reater4.mp3

i hope this makes sense

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