- From: Peter Kerr <p.kerr@auckland.ac.nz>
- Date: Thu, 25 Jan 2007 07:45:23 +1300
- To: Jonathan Chetwynd <j.chetwynd@btinternet.com>
- Cc: www-amaya@w3.org
On 24/01/2007, at 8:51 PM, Jonathan Chetwynd wrote: > <object> audio broken for html & SVG > > ''' > the specs don't appear to require parameters, and in webkit audio > plays fine in html version. > however they enable amaya, please could someone provide an example? > Embedding audio is still a "grey area" The problem appears to be the way different browsers handle it, means you have to present a mangled markup to satisfy the majority of your audience. Some not will not correctly interpret parameters in <object>, some insist on particular parameters. Some insist that <object> also contain <embed> and will work correctly only if the <embed> attributes are the same as what the <object> parameters should have been. This then causes your page to fail W3C validation. Webkit/gecko based browsers seem to be the best at handling this, if you simply present your audio as html on the page, or <a>xxxx://host.path.file.zzz</a> xxxx is the protocol, zzz is the file type. The RFC requests an intelligent browser to hand off any such url it does not understand to a helper application. Webkit does. Unfortunately the "most popular" browser (IE) is also the least intelligent... Apple has a useful page on embedding QuickTime, including embedding sound and movies in poster pictures, which satisfies a majority of browsers, and fails w3c validation :-( I confess this has discouraged me from pursuing svg... peterk
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