- From: Daniel W. Connolly <connolly@beach.w3.org>
- Date: Tue, 09 Apr 1996 09:01:43 -0400
- To: "Domingo Siliceo" <638net@medusa.es>
- Cc: www-html@w3.org
In message <199604021302.NAA12559@193.148.29.67>, "Domingo Siliceo" writes: >Hi all, >does the standard defines any way to play audio files inside a HTML page? Audio files are not "special" -- they're just another resource. So the following: <a href="foo.au">some audio</a> should work just fine (and does in most implementations, as far as I know.) >Is any browser currently giving support to that? The only thing they don't seem to support is link relationships. For example, <a rel="present" href="foo.au">some audio</a> is supposed to cause the link to be activiated not when the user clicks, but when the document is displayed. The LINK tag was supposed to work this way too, so: <link rel="present" href="foo.wav"> should play foo.wav in the bakckground, and there was no need for: <bgsound src="foo.wav"> Embed could have been reduced to <a rel="embed"> in much the same way, except for nesting issues. Hmmm... www.iet.com isn't responding. But have a look at the "proposed tag: IMG: thread in Mar '93. Then look at all the <include> proposals in the intervening years. I sincerely hope the "Inserting Multimedia Objects in HTML" spec (keep an eye on http://www.w3.org/pub/WWW/TR/) will resolve these issues. Dan
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