Erin, Instead of using conditional comments, try placing the fallback code INSIDE the <audio> element (e.g. <audio [all the params]>[fallback code]</audio>. That might work.
Best wishes, Hayden From: li...@webstandardsgroup.org [mailto:li...@webstandardsgroup.org] On Behalf Of Erin Lawson Sent: Friday, 7 October 2011 4:26 PM To: wsg@webstandardsgroup.org Subject: [WSG] Shuffling audio objects with JavaScript Hi all, I am creating a webpage that uses JavaScript to shuffle a series of audio file "questions" and their matching drag-and-drop answers. I have successfully implemented this using the native HTML5 audio tags but also have a fallback section for IE 7/8 since these browsers cannot read the <audio> tag. This fallback section uses conditional comments around <object> and <param> tags as demonstrated at the end of this article here <http://www.elated.com/articles/html5-audio/> . Unfortunately the shuffle script doesn't want to play nicely with the fallback <object> and <param> code, and as result the audio will not play when I click the buttons in IE. If I remove the shuffle from the IE fallback the audio works fine, and the native <audio> works fine with the shuffle applied. I have posted the test page here <http://learnline-dev.cdu.edu.au/chn101/lesson1/initials/bmpw.html> so you can see what I mean - try it in FF/Chrome/Safari, then have a look in IE 7/8. If anyone needs to see specific parts of code, just let me know. Many thanks in advance! Erin ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org ******************************************************************* ******************************************************************* List Guidelines: http://webstandardsgroup.org/mail/guidelines.cfm Unsubscribe: http://webstandardsgroup.org/join/unsubscribe.cfm Help: memberh...@webstandardsgroup.org *******************************************************************
