[Koha] sound cues

[Magnus Enger]

Just a thought: How about not hardcoding this, but rather turning it into a
preference, so libraries can choose what works for them? 

Regards, 
Magnus Enger

----- Original Message -----
From: "Joe Atzberger" <ohiocore at gmail.com>
To: "Mason James" <mason.loves.sushi at gmail.com>
Sent: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 15:18:52 -0500
Subject: Re: [Koha] sound cues

> 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.
> 
> 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.
> 
> --Joe
> 
> On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 8:46 PM, Mason James
> <mason.loves.sushi at gmail.com>wrote:
> 
> >
> > On 2008/11/12, at 2:29 PM, Rick Welykochy wrote:
> >
> > > Mason James wrote:
> > >> the embedded WAV tag is a simpler/cleaner/open-source solution
> > >> over  the SWF method
> > >
> > > I do believe .WAV is a microsoft proprietary format, but let's not
> > > split hairs :)
> > > We could go for a .OGG file if you want to keep things strictly
> > > open, but I doubt MS/InternetExplorer will be supporting that
> > > anytime soon.
> >
> > yep, .ogg would be even better
> >
> > my safari, FF3 and opera all work fine playing an ogg file
> >
> > it looks like most modern browsers will play oggs
> > test here -> http://www.xiph.org/vorbis/listen.html
> >
> > being uncompressed, wav could be a bad format for network performance,
> > i assume/hope the wavs are cached locally by the broswer, ?!
> >
> > supported, compressed and FOSS makes ogg the perfect choice for me
> >
> > Mason.