I don't think I follow you at all, Mason. The page you link doesn't include any <embed> functionality so it doesn't demonstrate browser compatibility for our purposes. You would have to test it inside <embed> on systems that do not have any extra codecs or players installed, and certainly without any browser plug-ins. <br>
<br>I suspect a (small!) .wav file will be the most reliable way to go. Obviously a wav won't be smaller than a corresponding compressed file, but we don't want to require or wait for a 3rd-party browser-embedded player to load. There would only need to be one file, as far as I can tell, since on a real error we can use a javascript alert and get the usual ding.<br>
<br>--Joe<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 8:46 PM, Mason James <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mason.loves.sushi@gmail.com">mason.loves.sushi@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
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On 2008/11/12, at 2:29 PM, Rick Welykochy wrote:<br>
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> Mason James wrote:<br>
>> the embedded WAV tag is a simpler/cleaner/open-source solution<br>
>> over the SWF method<br>
><br>
> I do believe .WAV is a microsoft proprietary format, but let's not<br>
> split hairs :)<br>
</div><div class="Ih2E3d">> We could go for a .OGG file if you want to keep things strictly<br>
> open, but I doubt MS/InternetExplorer will be supporting that<br>
> anytime soon.<br><br>
</div>yep, .ogg would be even better<br>
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my safari, FF3 and opera all work fine playing an ogg file<br>
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it looks like most modern browsers will play oggs<br>
test here -> <a href="http://www.xiph.org/vorbis/listen.html" target="_blank">http://www.xiph.org/vorbis/listen.html</a><br>
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being uncompressed, wav could be a bad format for network performance,<br>
i assume/hope the wavs are cached locally by the broswer, ?!<br>
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supported, compressed and FOSS makes ogg the perfect choice for me<br>
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