- From: Murray Altheim <murray@spyglass.com>
- Date: Tue, 2 Apr 1996 10:22:13 -0400
- To: "Domingo Siliceo" <638net@medusa.es>
- Cc: www-html@w3.org
Domingo Siliceo <638net@medusa.es> writes:
>Hi all,
>does the standard defines any way to play audio files inside a HTML page?
>Is any browser currently giving support to that?
Domingo,
As has been suggested, BGSOUND is one option, but only supported in MS
Internet Explorer. A more general method can be found on Odell McGuire's
Old Time Music Page at
http://www.wlu.edu/~omcguire/otmusx.html
which is simply to use an anchor HREF-erencing a sound file, such as
<a href="ftaoh.aifc">Fine Times at Our House</a>
You can check your browser preferences under 'Helpers' or 'Helper Apps'
('File Types' in MSIE) to see which file extension mappings are understood.
These will have a MIME type of 'audio/xxxx' where 'xxxx' is the type of
sound file (commonly /wav (.wav), /basic (.au), /x-aiff (.aiff), etc.).
This is a commonly supported option in most popular browsers. Sorry for the
Odell plug; it just happens to be one of my favorites.
Murray
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