Posted by cwdjrxyz on 11/03/32 11:40

dorayme wrote:
> In article
> <1140374264.227750.116830@g14g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
> "cwdjrxyz" <spamtrap1@cwdjr.info> wrote:
>
> > dorayme wrote:
> > > 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 ...
>
> > Using the simple object tag you use just does not work on all browsers
>
> OK, how do you sophisticate the tag to make it just play in
> modern browsers? It is ok, I could research this, but if you
> know, I would be obliged.

See my pages that can be reached at
http://www.cwdjr.info/media/playersRoot.php .

You can usually embed the player at any size you wish or hide it. In
most cases you can use an ordinary object that often contains several
parameters. In a very few cases you may have to provide an ActiveX
object path for IE browsers only if you want them to stream rather than
download. If you think that some of this gets complicated, you are
right. We now have a media player and format war that makes the old
browser war seem tame on comparison. This is to be expected for media.
We also now have a format war for the new high definition DVDs just
beginning to appear.

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