1.4 background sound

Happy Brussels

 

I was to research the support for turning off background sounds/music in
various browsers. 

 

 

To test IE 6.0 I went to a site that had a midi file playing on autostart
using this code.

 

<embed autostart="true" hidden="true" loop="true"
src="http://bayou660.tripod.com/sitebuildercontent/sitebuilderfiles/layhnds.
mid"></embed>

 

Turning off background music the Multimedia section of the advanced options
in IE had no effect on it.   The loop kept playing

 

 

I went to the thunder site. http://www.laits.utexas.edu/kimmel/   It used a
FLASH .swf file to generate the sound.

 

<embed src="sounds/rain.swf"
pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/"
type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="32" height="32"
scale="noborder">   </embed>\

 

In IE and opera you can turn off <bgsound src="yourmusicfile.mid"
loop="infinite"> but it is specific to only those two browsers

 

Firefox has no mechanism to turn off background sound.

 

So I think that yesterday's resolution regarding background sound was good.

 

Cheers

David MacDonald

 

 

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