Posted by Neredbojias on 11/23/78 11:40

With neither quill nor qualm, dorayme quothed:

> 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...

I agree with cwd jr. The best way is to use an .m3u file directing to
the music file desired. Objects can be objectionable.

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Neredbojias
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