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  • Bill
    #1

    system sound

    Hi

    Is it possible to trigger a sound upon hovering a link but without the
    use of winamp or another client ?

    thks
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    • Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn
      #2
      Re: system sound

      Bill wrote:
      Is it possible to trigger a sound upon hovering a link but without the
      use of winamp or another client ?
      Yes and no. A media player plugin is usually required.


      PointedEars
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        • Bill
          #3
          Re: system sound

          Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn a écrit :
          Bill wrote:
          >Is it possible to trigger a sound upon hovering a link but without the
          >use of winamp or another client ?
          >
          Yes and no. A media player plugin is usually required.
          >

          Humm. I want to achieve the same effect as if it were a flash animation
          with sound. It doesn't trigger a media player. There's no way to
          directly pass a specialized parameter to the sound card ?

          Somewhat like we used to do with Basic ( .... data "1 3e 5f ...")

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            • Joost Diepenmaat
              #4
              Re: system sound

              Bill <billlab51@hotm ail.comwrites:
              Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn a écrit :
              >Bill wrote:
              >>Is it possible to trigger a sound upon hovering a link but without
              >>the use of winamp or another client ?
              >>
              >Yes and no. A media player plugin is usually required.
              >>
              >
              >
              Humm. I want to achieve the same effect as if it were a flash
              animation with sound. It doesn't trigger a media player. There's no
              way to directly pass a specialized parameter to the sound card ?
              no. you can start a flash player and control *that*, though. IME most
              other tricks (like using <embedor <objectto load a sound file
              directly in your page) are less reliable in practice, though they might
              be used as fall-back methods.
              Somewhat like we used to do with Basic ( .... data "1 3e 5f ...")
              you'd need flash or something similar to do play melodies (instead of
              just playing a single wav/mp3 containing the full melody). unless you
              don't mind the timing being *way* off.

              --
              Joost Diepenmaat | blog: http://joost.zeekat.nl/ | work: http://zeekat.nl/

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                • Bill
                  #5
                  Re: system sound

                  Joost Diepenmaat a écrit :
                  Bill <billlab51@hotm ail.comwrites:
                  >
                  >Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn a écrit :
                  >>Bill wrote:
                  >>>Is it possible to trigger a sound upon hovering a link but without
                  >>>the use of winamp or another client ?
                  >>Yes and no. A media player plugin is usually required.
                  >>>
                  >>
                  >Humm. I want to achieve the same effect as if it were a flash
                  >animation with sound. It doesn't trigger a media player. There's no
                  >way to directly pass a specialized parameter to the sound card ?
                  >
                  no. you can start a flash player and control *that*, though. IME most
                  other tricks (like using <embedor <objectto load a sound file
                  directly in your page) are less reliable in practice, though they might
                  be used as fall-back methods.
                  >
                  >Somewhat like we used to do with Basic ( .... data "1 3e 5f ...")
                  >
                  you'd need flash or something similar to do play melodies (instead of
                  just playing a single wav/mp3 containing the full melody). unless you
                  don't mind the timing being *way* off.
                  >
                  Too bad, I hope either W3C or Sun have that feature in mind for a future
                  CSS or JS version.

                  Thanks

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                    • Tim B
                      #6
                      Re: system sound


                      "Bill" <billlab51@hotm ail.comwrote in message
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                      Joost Diepenmaat a écrit :
                      Bill <billlab51@hotm ail.comwrites:
                      Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn a écrit :
                      >Bill wrote:
                      >>Is it possible to trigger a sound upon hovering a link but without
                      >>the use of winamp or another client ?
                      >Yes and no. A media player plugin is usually required.
                      >>
                      >
                      Humm. I want to achieve the same effect as if it were a flash
                      animation with sound. It doesn't trigger a media player. There's no
                      way to directly pass a specialized parameter to the sound card ?
                      no. you can start a flash player and control *that*, though. IME most
                      other tricks (like using <embedor <objectto load a sound file
                      directly in your page) are less reliable in practice, though they might
                      be used as fall-back methods.
                      Somewhat like we used to do with Basic ( .... data "1 3e 5f ...")
                      you'd need flash or something similar to do play melodies (instead of
                      just playing a single wav/mp3 containing the full melody). unless you
                      don't mind the timing being *way* off.
                      >
                      Too bad, I hope either W3C or Sun have that feature in mind for a future
                      CSS or JS version.
                      >
                      Thanks
                      Sun has nothing to do with JavaScript


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