- From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 10:03:57 +0200
On Fri, 19 Oct 2007 07:12:03 +0200, Robert O'Callahan
<robert at ocallahan.org> wrote:
> My current opinion is that <audio> and <video> elements should behave
> like <img> and load/play whether or not they're in a document, but they
> should
> only emit sound if they're in a document with a presentation and are not
> in a display:none subtree. Then to play a sound you'd have to insert the
> element into your document somewhere with size 0x0 (which should be the
> default for <audio>).
I think you want to do:
var soundeffect = new Audio("sound.wav")
soundeffect.onload = function() { this.play() }
which is what was possible with the old Audio API (became <audio>) Opera
implemented.
--
Anne van Kesteren
<http://annevankesteren.nl/>
<http://www.opera.com/>
Received on Friday, 19 October 2007 01:03:57 UTC