On Sun, Sep 14, 2008 at 7:31 PM, Ashley Sheridan <ash@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Sun, 2008-09-14 at 13:54 +1000, hce wrote: >> Thanks Dan and Ash. I've tried object tag, it crashed my firefox. The >> audio.php file generates a simple following html. You need media >> player plugin to test it. The web server >> http://www.myweb.com/audio.php is my home server. Let me further >> discribe the problems, it is not the embed tag problem, it is the >> source in the embed tag does not download to the browser (In fact, >> I've tried the object tag as Ash suggested, the object tag crashed >> firefox): >> >> (1) If I open following audio.html directly from "Open File" >> file:///home/webserver/audio.html, the embed tag works just fine, the >> audio can play. The /home/webserver is the directory where all >> applications audio.php and audio.mp3 are stored. >> >> (2) If I open from http://www.myweb.com/audio.php, the audio.mp3 does >> not download to firefox. Nothing is played. >> >> <html> >> <embed src="audio.mp3" autostart="1"></embed> >> </html> >> >> Thanks. >> >> Jim >> >> >> On 9/13/08, Ashley Sheridan <ash@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> > As far as I'm aware, the embed tag is not supported in any HTML >> > standard, and as such, it's a little hit and miss. Depending on what you >> > want to achieve, you should look towards the object tag instead: >> > >> > http://joliclic.free.fr/html/object-tag/en/ >> > >> > >> > >> > Ash >> > www.ashleysheridan.co.uk >> > >> > As far as i know, embed will never work on Firefox, but I could be wrong > on that. How exactly were you using the object tag? It shouldn't be > crashing the browser. Please see following object tag I tried, there was a following error. Sometime the browser freezed, sometime it was fine. It did not display the small image block in width="200" height="20". Nothing was played. Error: [Exception... "Component is not available" nsresult: "0x80040111 (NS_ERROR_NOT_AVAILABLE)" location: "JS frame :: file:///usr/lib/firefox-3.0.1/components/nsSessionStore.js :: sss_saveState :: line 1896" data: no] Source File: file:///usr/lib/firefox-3.0.1/components/nsSessionStore.js Line: 1896 <object type="audio/mpeg" data="audio.mp3" width="200" height="20"> <param name="src" value="audio.mp3"> <param name="autoplay" value="true"> <param name="autoStart" value="1"> alt : <a href="audio.mp3">test audio</a> </object> Thanks Ash. -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
