So I've been playing around with embedding sound in HTML ... it seems to work fine for me, but some people say they get an Active-X warning, which makes it look like I'm trying to do something nefarious.
So I have setup a stripped down example – please see:
http://www.komar.org/audio/
as it used the embed command to load the .wav files, and as noted on the page, should play a sound on page load, and then also mouse overs for the text and image.
This plays sounds for me fine (both FF and IE) with no Active-X popup in the later ... how well does this work for others? And is there a "standard" way to embed sound in HTML this is semi-universal across browsers. |
I'm getting one of those "additional plug-ins needed" messages here on Firefox. A great way to test your page on different browser's/ OS's default settings btw is BrowserPool: http://browserpool.de/kc/wob/portal.jsp?lang=en
In general, I'd say Flash is the best way to embed sound, but only if you know Flash or have friends who do :)
Other than that probably some mixture of embed or object elements or bgmusic but I tried to solve this last a long time ago, on Monday, April 28 1997, to be exact (ah, where would I be without Google Groups). :) |
I even try audioblog.com/ |
I looked at some of that, but didn't see a concise example of how to embed audio in HTML so you can javascript OnMouseOver handle it – here is an example page of what I'm looking for:
http://www.phon.ucl.ac.uk/home/mark/audio/play.htm
I think the problem that is cropping up is some folks don't have their browsers to handle all types of audio – unfortunately, there are all sorts of formats out there.
I just created a NEW test page if you guys can try it out:
http://www.komar.org/audio/index2.html
Difference is that instead of using .wav files, it uses .mp3. Would like to know if Philipp (and others) still get that popup – I'm assuming that you can normally play .mp3's and I added a link (no js) to test that. |
Yep. still getting the yellow top-bar in Firefox. I usually only see it on my girlfriend's computer and then tell her to stay away from the site, as it might be spyware! ;) |
