Karl Dallas wrote: >I'm sure lots of people know the answer to this question, so apologies. >Is there any way to use abc in a webpage so it can be played, either on >loading, or when a link is clicked?
As Jon said, there is no plugin for .abc, but if the mime type is set correctly the user can set his favourite abc program as a helper, and clicking the link will then open the abc using that program. This works fine with BarFly on the Mac, and I imagine would work just the same on PCs. The main problem is that most servers don't seem to have the correct mime type set, and serve up the abc as text/plain. >If so, can anyone point me to where I can find out how to do this? Does >the reader need to have some kind of a plug-in? If so, where can this be >obtained? Could it be placed alongside the html file so a click will >install it on the reader's PC? >(Since writing the above, I've done some web searching, and found the >following comment from Bruce Olson at http://users.erols.com/olsonw/: >("To the best of my knowledge you can't play ABC's from web browsers and >must copy the xx.ABC file to your computer. Then use ABC2WIN in WINDOWS, >or PLAYQABC in DOS, to play them (no tune display from the latter).) >(Perhaps it would be possible to have a link that said something like ><a href="filename.abc">Play tune</a> which would play if the reader had >abc2win or similar installed. Would this work? I must try it - but >probably not yet awhile since I'm leaving for Iraq in 14 days' time & am >running around like the proverbial blue-tail fly getting my travelling >act together.) Are you a war correspondent these days Karl? Doesn't seem like a good time to be covering the Iraqi music scene. Phil Taylor To subscribe/unsubscribe, point your browser to: http://www.tullochgorm.com/lists.html
