FireFox 2

[axman505]

Greetings,

I have a webpage with an embedded sound file which is called via a javascript functino to play on an onclick event. It works fine in Interent Expleore and Netscape, but i get the following error in firefox:

Error: document.sound1.Play is not a function
Source File:

http://www.musicvibrations.com/

Line: 19

The function is:

function playSound(){
document.sound1.Play();
}

 

[bcastner]

Try the Mozilla forums. There are a lot of issues with sound and other .js extensions:

http://www.mozillazine.org/

 

[mrstrauss]

This issue has been a source of frustration to me for months!!!

And it is remarkably hard to find examples of people talking about it.

I think that it may be just not possible to autoplay embedded media in firefox, particualrly .wma's which are just so damn convienent for use in IE.

I hope someone provides an answer to this, because I sure as hell don't have one.


mr strauss

http://www.popgoeslethal.com

 

[Xaqte]

The problem you face is that the Firefox browser doesn't have ActiveX installed by default. Any Firefox browser that wishes to view your pages must complete an ActiveX installation in order to do so. A couple of links:

http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=167260

http://reviews.cnet.com/5208-6620-0.html?forumID=14&threadID=47880&messageID=597485

Hope this helps!

X

 

[mrstrauss]

I have solved this problem!!!

Months this has taken me, literally months!!!!

here's the thing.

my first problem was that my host didn't have a mime type built in for .wma

So I went to Cpanel, which my host provides/uses i dunno, and I went to mime types and added a user defined mime type for wma's which, btw, is

audio/x-ms-wma

But that wasn't enough. SO then i tried this:

 <object> data="/audio/rappineric.wma" codetype="audio/x-ms-wma"   </object>

I added this code to my pages which, of course, is in addition to the

<embed name='CS1104085164738' src='/audio/rappineric.wma' loop="False" 
autostart="True" mastersound hidden="True" width=0 height=0></embed>

tags.



Here is a page where I got it to work for firefox 1.0. It still claims "play is not a function" and tells me I have an error if I look in the web developer toolbar, but it works!!!!!

http://www.popgoeslethal.com/roundandround.html

Sweet jesus, thank you at last!!!!!

 

[bcastner]

Thank you.

And a star.

Bill Castner