Posted by TJ on 10/24/11 11:26

In news:pan.2005.09.10.13.53.53.769845@nospam.com,
Jafar As-Sadiq Calley <nooo@nospam.com> wrote:

> On Sat, 10 Sep 2005 06:26:20 +0100, Roy Schestowitz wrote:
>
>>> You just made my day. It doesn't work with IE! Woohoo! :)
>>
>> Knowingly so. Please see the following entry from last week:
>>
>> http://schestowitz.com/Weblog/archives/2005/08/31/condolences-to-explorer/
>
> I posted a link into comp.os.linux.advocacy. I hope you don't mind.
> You have a fan already though. He said... "What a cool Web page. I've
> never seen one like that before. Just
> press page-down to get to the next point. And you don't need
> proprietory crapware (PowerPoint) to see the presentation."
>
> Well done on taking a stand against IE's anti-webstandards stance. My
> moonlife-records.com site also uses .png transparency which means the
> menu buttons have a white background which is a shame.

Well done to you too. That is, if the moonlife-records site mission is to
chase IE users away.

I wanted to check out what was happening with the .png transparency and
began wondering why the page was taking so long to load. (>20 seconds via a
4.4 megabits per second cable connection) So naturally I hit stop and
peeked at the source. ACK!

<bgsound src="http://moonlife-records.com/mp3/disloop.mp3"
loop="100"></bgsound>

And then I left. Not only was it taking forever to load, but _I'll_ decide
what comes out of my speakers, not you, thanks.

I thought attempting to force sound on a visitor was generally acknowledged
as being a design no-no. No?

Given the latest browser usage stats, I'm not even going to argue the merits
(if any) of, "taking a stand against IE's anti-webstandards stance" other
than to say it would seem akin to cutting off your nose to spite your face.
Though in fairness I'll say this. I hit the page again with Firefox and it
loaded in <4 seconds. Without the sound, of course.

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