Posted by dorayme on 09/28/79 11:40

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<1140421732.084847.270110@f14g2000cwb.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 ...

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>
> 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.

Thank you. Did not want to step into any kind of war! Sounds like
heavy work for the harmless purpose my piano music served [1] but
I will take a look in case I need to include stuff for a paid job
(please God don't anyone ask me to include multimedia for now...)

I was looking at a friend's PC (Windows 2000) and the simple
object mark up did not work in his IE but did simply in his
Firefox. On my Mac IE it worked fine.

1. Mainly private site for friends, clear provided link to turn
music on or off by the dorayme proprietorial method: link saying
'piano music', goes to same looking page but with piano music,
page has 'stop music' link which goes to same looking page but
with 'no piano music' link.

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dorayme

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