Question re Firefox

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I am creating an HTML ejournal of our family history. I embellish some pages
with background midis or .wav files. However, these don't play in Firefox.
They do play in IE6. Is this a Firefox issue or is this a Windows issue?

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I am creating an HTML ejournal of our family history. I embellish some pages
with background midis or .wav files. However, these don't play in Firefox.
They do play in IE6. Is this a Firefox issue or is this a Windows issue?
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the embed tag is not standardized html and will only work in netscape
or another mozilla/gecko browser. if you use the embed tag and want
the sound to work in other browsers too, you'll need to follow the
embed tag with a bgsound tag. using both the embed and bgsound tags
will allow the sound to play in both broswers. more info:
http://www.htmlgoodies.com/tutors/embed.html
hth! :)
 
_|3iff //ullins_, domenica 10/ott/2004:
the embed tag is not standardized html and will only work in netscape
or another mozilla/gecko browser. if you use the embed tag and want
the sound to work in other browsers too, you'll need to follow the
embed tag with a bgsound tag. using both the embed and bgsound tags
will allow the sound to play in both broswers. more info:
http://www.htmlgoodies.com/tutors/embed.html
hth! :)
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I think it is the other way around: it is FF that works only with true
standard HTML code.
If you used "bgsound" tag, that's MS proprietary and not W3C, and will not
work in FF.

Or do you mean that MS proprietary HTML code is "the" standardized html?
I hope not.
 
Thanks to everyone for the animated response! The embed command appears to
have solved the problem. Now the sounds even play in my old OffbyOne
browser. . .
 
Thanks to everyone for the animated response! The embed command appears to
have solved the problem. Now the sounds even play in my old OffbyOne
browser. . .
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cool! happy to have helped. :)
 
_|3iff //ullins_, domenica 10/ott/2004:


I think it is the other way around: it is FF that works only with true
standard HTML code.
If you used "bgsound" tag, that's MS proprietary and not W3C, and will not
work in FF.

Or do you mean that MS proprietary HTML code is "the" standardized html?
I hope not.
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maybe you'll buy the truth from netscRape itself:
http://wp.netscape.com/assist/net_sites/embed_tag.html

and remember: google is your friend! hand! :)

--
"I've had a total recalibration of my mind, you know. I mean, it's
like, I've been banging my head against this 19th century type, um,
what? Thought mode? Construct? Human construct? Well, the wall doesn't
exist. It's not there, you know. I mean, they tell you, look for the
light at the end of the tunnel. Well, there is no tunnel. There's just
no structure. The underlying order is chaos."

-Richard Linklater's "Slacker" (1991)
 
the embed tag is not standardized html and will only work in
netscape or another mozilla/gecko browser.
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True that EMBED is not standardized, but not true that it will only
work with gecko browsers. IE supported it since version 3, but
afaik their implementation was/is not compatible with Netscape's.
if you use the embed tag and want the sound to work in other
browsers too, you'll need to follow the embed tag with a bgsound
tag. using both the embed and bgsound tags will allow the sound to
play in both broswers.
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Why not use OBJECT, which is part of the html 4.01 specs and will
work with IE also?
 
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