quoth Pau Garcia i Quiles as of Mon, 24 Nov 2008 20:26:40 +0100:
> n Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 8:10 PM, Jakov af Wallby
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>> On Mon, Nov 24, 2008 at 04:23:56PM +0000, Lalo Martins wrote:
>>>
>>> I imagine a very simple API... I'll put more thought into it and post
>>> here. If either flash or js isn't available, it'd degrade to simply
>>> doing nothing. Maybe try HTML5 before flash?
>>
>> I think I remember Netscape could play Midi and WAV (or was it SUN .au)
>> without plugins, back in the day.
>
> Yes, using <embed ..>/<object...> in Netscape and <bgsound> in Internet
> Explorer. Problem is you are pretty limited: only MIDI files, WAV files
> or .AU files. Anything else (for instance, MP3), the user needs to have
> a plugin to manage that. That's why Flash is a good option: it's really
> small and deals with lots of codecs.
Also, sound with embed/object has very limited abilities for dynamic
control, IIRC (I may be wrong). It displays a small control bar where
the user can play/pause/etc, but I can't play or change the sample via
javascript. For my purposes -- playing a short sample when you click a
widget, for example -- I don't think it would work. But again, I may be
wrong :-) haven't looked at this in years.
best,
Lalo Martins
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