On Sun, 2008-09-21 at 11:26 -0400, tedd wrote:
> At 4:11 PM +0100 9/21/08, Ashley Sheridan wrote:
> >On Sun, 2008-09-21 at 10:02 -0400, tedd wrote:
> >> At 2:24 PM +0100 9/21/08, Ashley Sheridan wrote:
> >> >
> >> >The bgsound tag is not in HTML 4 or XHTML 1 specifications, and I
> >> >wouldn't recommend its use, ever.
> >>
> >>
> >> I didn't say it was, nor did I recommend it -- I only pointed out the
> >> embed tag was for Netscape and bgsound tag was used for other
> >> browsers.
> >>
> >> >Like I've said before on this thread,
> >> >the way to do this is with an embed tag inside an object tag, pretty
> >> >much the same way you'd do it for a Flash movie.
> >>
> >> With that I agree as I have done here:
> >>
> >> http://webbytedd.com/aa/assorted-captcha/
> >>
> >> The audio CAPTCHA delivers the mp3 file that's assembled in the
> >> background.
> >>
> >> Cheers,
> >>
> >> tedd
> >> --
> >> -------
> >> http://sperling.com http://ancientstones.com http://earthstones.com
> >>
> >But your audio is delivered through Flash, which adds another layer
> >where things can go wrong. Playing a background sound shouldn't require
> >a specific plugin to work, it should be possible to make it play with
> >the generic audio plugin that the browser has access to. Based on hits
> >to my own site, about 30% are made by browsers that do not have the
> >Flash plugin or have it disabled. Now, this may be thrown out a little
> >by people visiting with Chrome, as I've yet to test my tracker there,
> >but it's still quite a high figure. I think you would be hard pressed to
> >find any browser without a plugin to play an mp3 file.
>
> Okay.
>
> On one hand, I say that using <embed> and <bgsound> can deliver mp3
> files, as shown here:
>
> http://sperling.com/examples/captcha/
>
> -- and it does work.
>
> On the other hand, I say that I can deliver mp3 sound files via Flash
> as shown here:
>
> http://webbytedd.com/aa/assorted-captcha/
>
> -- and it does work.
>
> But, you find fault with both.
>
> So, what and where's your example?
>
> Cheers,
>
> tedd
>
>
> --
> -------
> http://sperling.com http://ancientstones.com http://earthstones.com
>
This is now going to be a double post, but here it is:
<object id="mediaplayer1" width="120" height="40"
classid="CLSID:22d6f312-b0f6-11d0-94ab-0080c74c7e95">
<param value="sound.mp3" name="Filename"/>
<param value="False" name="AutoStart"/>
<param value="True" name="ShowControls"/>
<param value="False" name="ShowStatusBar"/>
<param value="False" name="ShowDisplay"/>
<param value="True" name="AutoRewind"/>
<embed width="120" height="40" autorewind="1" showdisplay="0"
showstatusbar="0" showcontrols="1" autostart="0" src="sound.mp3"
pluginspage="http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/Downloads/Contents/MediaPlayer/";
type="application/x-mplayer2"/>
</object>
This does make use of the embed tag, but in a way that will not be used
by browsers that can understand the object tag. It won't validate with
the W3C validators, but it will work.
Ash
www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
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