Maintaining audio playback state

Hi,

  I want to enable users to navigate my web site as follows: audio
playback starts when the user arrives at the site (no matter where),
and when the user navigates to some other part of the web site,
playback continues--regardless of whether the user opens the other
part in some additional window or tab. The playback should stop when
the user conceptually leaves the web site (i.e., closes the last tab
or window for the site).

The solution must not depend on scripting and must not reduce usability
of the web site. The solution should not enable me to abuse the
functionality to track users (e.g., if the audio source iri has an
associated unique id, and the solution allows access to the source iri
from the individual web sites, the user can easily be tracked).

Existing solutions would depend on scripting and frameset-like means
which provide poor usability; frameset-like means would include re-
loading the current document using a new DOM tree fetched via e.g.
scripting with XMLHTTPRequest-like functionality.

regards,
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Received on Monday, 4 July 2005 03:51:44 UTC