- From: Corné Beerse <cbeerse@lycos.nl>
- Date: Mon, 25 Oct 2004 10:16:42 +0200
- To: Randy Balbuena <randyb@att.net>
- Cc: www-amaya@w3.org
Randy Balbuena wrote: > Hi again. Another issue with Amaya I would like to report. I don't know > if Amaya is supposed to be HTML Strict by design. Any way I'm trying to As far as I know, it is strict by design, specially if html-strict is choosen (as I most times do). > contribute. Please let me know. Details below. -Randy > > ------------------------------------------------------------- > > Issue: Web page cannot play background music. > Site: http://home.att.net/~joliver > > Diagnostic: Page displays correctly, but has no sound. > > Browser: Amaya 8.6 (Jul 9, 2004) > OS: Windows XP SP2 > > Comments: Mozila Firefox 1.0 does not play the music. > Internet Explorer 6.0 does play the music. > > The BGSOUND object is a Microsoft extension to > HTML, that has been around since many years. > The element is available in HTML as of > Internet Explorer 3.0, and in script as of > Internet Explorer 4.0. > > More information about this element can be found at: What's the problem? Your info clearly states it is not part of the HTML standard. It even states it is Micro$oft special. From my point of view, it is just one of the issues in the browser war, specially at the time it is inserted (M$IE 3 and MSIE4, that's a long way back...) CBee
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