system sound

[Bill]

Hi

Is it possible to trigger a sound upon hovering a link but without the
use of winamp or another client ?

thks

[Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn]

Bill wrote:

Is it possible to trigger a sound upon hovering a link but without the
use of winamp or another client ?

Yes and no. A media player plugin is usually required.
PointedEars
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[Bill]

Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn a écrit :

Bill wrote:

>Is it possible to trigger a sound upon hovering a link but without the
use of winamp or another client ?

Yes and no. A media player plugin is usually required.

Humm. I want to achieve the same effect as if it were a flash animation
with sound. It doesn't trigger a media player. There's no way to
directly pass a specialized parameter to the sound card ?

Somewhat like we used to do with Basic ( .... data "1 3e 5f ...")

[Joost Diepenmaat]

Bill <bi*******@hotmail.comwrites:

Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn a écrit :

>Bill wrote:

>>Is it possible to trigger a sound upon hovering a link but without
the use of winamp or another client ?

Yes and no. A media player plugin is usually required.

Humm. I want to achieve the same effect as if it were a flash
animation with sound. It doesn't trigger a media player. There's no
way to directly pass a specialized parameter to the sound card ?

no. you can start a flash player and control *that*, though. IME most
other tricks (like using <embedor <objectto load a sound file
directly in your page) are less reliable in practice, though they might
be used as fall-back methods.

Somewhat like we used to do with Basic ( .... data "1 3e 5f ...")

you'd need flash or something similar to do play melodies (instead of
just playing a single wav/mp3 containing the full melody). unless you
don't mind the timing being *way* off.

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[Bill]

Joost Diepenmaat a écrit :

Bill <bi*******@hotmail.comwrites:

>Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn a écrit :

>>Bill wrote:
Is it possible to trigger a sound upon hovering a link but without
the use of winamp or another client ?
Yes and no. A media player plugin is usually required.

Humm. I want to achieve the same effect as if it were a flash
animation with sound. It doesn't trigger a media player. There's no
way to directly pass a specialized parameter to the sound card ?

no. you can start a flash player and control *that*, though. IME most
other tricks (like using <embedor <objectto load a sound file
directly in your page) are less reliable in practice, though they might
be used as fall-back methods.

>Somewhat like we used to do with Basic ( .... data "1 3e 5f ...")

you'd need flash or something similar to do play melodies (instead of
just playing a single wav/mp3 containing the full melody). unless you
don't mind the timing being *way* off.

Too bad, I hope either W3C or Sun have that feature in mind for a future
CSS or JS version.

Thanks

[Tim B]

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Joost Diepenmaat a écrit :

Bill <bi*******@hotmail.comwrites:

Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn a écrit :
Bill wrote:
Is it possible to trigger a sound upon hovering a link but without
the use of winamp or another client ?
Yes and no. A media player plugin is usually required.
Humm. I want to achieve the same effect as if it were a flash
animation with sound. It doesn't trigger a media player. There's no
way to directly pass a specialized parameter to the sound card ?

no. you can start a flash player and control *that*, though. IME most
other tricks (like using <embedor <objectto load a sound file
directly in your page) are less reliable in practice, though they might
be used as fall-back methods.

Somewhat like we used to do with Basic ( .... data "1 3e 5f ...")

you'd need flash or something similar to do play melodies (instead of
just playing a single wav/mp3 containing the full melody). unless you
don't mind the timing being *way* off.

Too bad, I hope either W3C or Sun have that feature in mind for a future
CSS or JS version.

Thanks

Sun has nothing to do with JavaScript