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Is there a sound plug-in?
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| Gualtier Malde 2007-12-10, 1:14 am |
| Greetings
There is a good web page for the Burnaby (Canada) Power and Sail Squadron which
has music playing behind some of the pages. I learned about it but couldn't
hear the music and wrote the webmaster. He sent this back: "IE and Netscape
will recognize sounds recorded using MS FrontPage while Mozilla/Firefox will not."
Is there anything I can get to equip FireFox to play the music? I am using
2.0;.0.11 in Windows 2000.
Thanks -
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| Leonidas Jones 2007-12-10, 1:14 am |
| Gualtier Malde wrote:
> Greetings
>
> There is a good web page for the Burnaby (Canada) Power and Sail
> Squadron which has music playing behind some of the pages. I learned
> about it but couldn't hear the music and wrote the webmaster. He sent
> this back: "IE and netscape will recognize sounds recorded using MS
> FrontPage while Mozilla/Firefox will not."
>
> Is there anything I can get to equip FireFox to play the music? I am
> using 2.0;.0.11 in Windows 2000.
>
> Thanks -
Post the link so I can look at the source, but the reference to Front
Page is a red flag. When FP is used to insert background sound, it uses
the IE proprietary tag of bgsound. Music inserted with this tag will
not play in Netscape.
Any sound inserted with coding that will play in a version of Netscape
will play in Mozilla firefox. Again, post a link for more specific
information.
Lee
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Leonidas Jones, Netscape/Mozilla Champion
The Champs: http://mozillachampions.ufaq.org
Links: http://www.ufaq.org/ http://mozilla.com http://kb.mozillazine.org
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| Gualtier Malde 2007-12-10, 1:14 am |
| Leonidas Jones wrote:
> Gualtier Malde wrote:
>
> Post the link so I can look at the source, but the reference to Front
> Page is a red flag. When FP is used to insert background sound, it uses
> the IE proprietary tag of bgsound. Music inserted with this tag will
> not play in Netscape.
>
> Any sound inserted with coding that will play in a version of Netscape
> will play in Mozilla firefox. Again, post a link for more specific
> information.
>
> Lee
>
Thanks for your reply. Here's the link: http://www.burnabysquadron.com/index.htm
Well, if there is no work-around I'll have to do without the sound.
C
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| Leonidas Jones 2007-12-10, 1:14 am |
| Gualtier Malde wrote:
> Leonidas Jones wrote:
> Thanks for your reply. Here's the link:
> http://www.burnabysquadron.com/index.htm
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> Well, if there is no work-around I'll have to do without the sound.
>
> C
Yep here is the relevant tag:
<bgsound src="Main%20Page%20Images/j0388288.wav" loop="-1">
That file will only play in Internet Explorer. If the web designer says
it plays in Netscape, well I just tried it in netscape Navigator 9, and
nothing. I then tried in netscape 7.2, no sound. Maybe NS 8 running in
IE mode could play it, but that is really just running IE as a shell.
He could use the Embed tag, which will play in all browsers. Indeed he
should.
I hate to encourage non standard coding but there is an extension, Stop
Autoplay that will allow the sound to play. It was designed to stop
background sound from playing, since it can be annoying, but it also has
the function of converting the bgsound tag to embed, which Firefox can
understand and implement:
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/1765
Lee
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Leonidas Jones, Netscape/Mozilla Champion
The Champs: http://mozillachampions.ufaq.org
Links: http://www.ufaq.org/ http://mozilla.com http://kb.mozillazine.org
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