Comments on: Audio In Web Pages http://www.codedread.com/blog/archives/2006/04/20/audio-in-web-pages/ Tue, 17 Jan 2012 21:56:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Jonny http://www.codedread.com/blog/archives/2006/04/20/audio-in-web-pages/comment-page-1/#comment-413 Jonny Sat, 22 Apr 2006 11:48:25 +0000 http://blog.codedread.com/?p=250#comment-413 Not that it really is that relevant, but <a href="http://www.voicexml.org/specs/multimodal/x+v/12/index.html#Audio" rel="nofollow">Opera does actually support an 'audio' element</a> (in the VoiceXML namespace) by virtue of supporting XHTML+Voice. It is nothing to get highly excited about, in practice it is the VoiceXML equivalent of 'object' limited to (you guessed it) audio. Not that it really is that relevant, but Opera does actually support an ‘audio’ element (in the VoiceXML namespace) by virtue of supporting XHTML+Voice. It is nothing to get highly excited about, in practice it is the VoiceXML equivalent of ‘object’ limited to (you guessed it) audio.

]]> By: Jeff Schiller http://www.codedread.com/blog/archives/2006/04/20/audio-in-web-pages/comment-page-1/#comment-412 Jeff Schiller Fri, 21 Apr 2006 12:12:53 +0000 http://blog.codedread.com/?p=250#comment-412 Anne, I agree. When I first read the HTML5 spec, my thought was: what if I want to use it declaratively and don't want to script its invocation (like the media01.svg example at http://www.w3.org/TR/SVGMobile12/multimedia.html#AudioElement). There is power in declarative programming (especially with auto-generation of code), but with power comes great complexity ;) In the short term, I think the HTML5 provides a very quick and simple solution. Anne,

I agree. When I first read the HTML5 spec, my thought was: what if I want to use it declaratively and don’t want to script its invocation (like the media01.svg example at http://www.w3.org/TR/SVGMobile12/multimedia.html#AudioElement). There is power in declarative programming (especially with auto-generation of code), but with power comes great complexity ;)

In the short term, I think the HTML5 provides a very quick and simple solution.

]]> By: Anne van Kesteren http://www.codedread.com/blog/archives/2006/04/20/audio-in-web-pages/comment-page-1/#comment-411 Anne van Kesteren Fri, 21 Apr 2006 07:01:55 +0000 http://blog.codedread.com/?p=250#comment-411 Why would you need an element anyway? Games are mostly scripted so... Why would you need an element anyway? Games are mostly scripted so…

]]> By: Jeff Schiller http://www.codedread.com/blog/archives/2006/04/20/audio-in-web-pages/comment-page-1/#comment-410 Jeff Schiller Thu, 20 Apr 2006 19:22:20 +0000 http://blog.codedread.com/?p=250#comment-410 FYI: audio is not a tag. It's only accessible via script... FYI: audio is not a tag. It’s only accessible via script…

]]> By: Rob http://www.codedread.com/blog/archives/2006/04/20/audio-in-web-pages/comment-page-1/#comment-409 Rob Thu, 20 Apr 2006 17:50:05 +0000 http://blog.codedread.com/?p=250#comment-409 I do wish that SVG would stick to graphics and put stuff that's not about vector graphics (even tangentially) like audio and networking in another document, but at this point it's beyond stupid that there's no standard way to deliver sound across browsers. If other browsers will support it, then I'll definitely use the audio tag. And for platforms that don't I'll try Scott's JavaScript/Flash thing. I just don't like the idea of doing a Flash-only solution. I do wish that SVG would stick to graphics and put stuff that’s not about vector graphics (even tangentially) like audio and networking in another document, but at this point it’s beyond stupid that there’s no standard way to deliver sound across browsers.

If other browsers will support it, then I’ll definitely use the audio tag. And for platforms that don’t I’ll try Scott’s JavaScript/Flash thing. I just don’t like the idea of doing a Flash-only solution.

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