Bob La Quey wrote: > On 11/13/06, Bob La Quey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On 11/13/06, Todd Walton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > On 11/12/06, Bob La Quey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > > I should add that I get that ugly little green icon that >> > > looks like a puzzle piece and a message to the effect >> > > that I need other plugins ... following the links back >> > > to the mozilla site is not very enlightening :( >> > >> > Which links back to the mozilla site? When I've seen that icon, I can >> > click directly on it and it takes me to the appropriate page for >> > downloading the plugin, which is usually not mozilla.org. >> > >> > -todd >> >> But it did not take me anywhere useful. I spent almost two days >> on this .... then finally it took all of about ten minutes to solve >> when I figured out what to do and found the right plugin and >> how to install it ... I hate it when that happens. >> >> I will say it works great now, exactly like I wanted. >> >> BobLQ >> > > As further comment I should say the secret sauce had two parts: > > 1) http://plugindoc.mozdev.org/linux.html > which documents plugins and how to install them > > 2) The package manager Synaptic, a GUI wrapped around apt > that Ubuntu provides. > > The specific issue was installing mplayer, and the mplayerplug-in that > is needed to get Firefox to work with multi-media, specifically in my > case sound. Now I can build DHTML like this: > ======================================== > <html> > <head> > <script> > function EvalSound(soundobj) { > var thissound= eval("document."+soundobj); > thissound.Play(); > } > </script> > </head> > <body> > > <embed src="sounds/cow.wav" autostart=false width=0 height=0 > name="sound1" enablejavascript="true"> > > <embed src="tips/thinkingyoung.mp3" autostart=false width=0 height=0 > name="sound2" enablejavascript="true"> > > <!-- > Here are examples of an image and a button calling the function. > --> > <a href="#" onMouseOver="EvalSound('sound1')"> > Move mouse here > </a> > > <a href="#" onMouseOver="EvalSound('sound2')"> > <img src="images/login.gif" > > </a> > </body> > </html> > ========================================= > > When a user of the web site does a mouseOver on a selected link > they will hear a sound. I am building a web site that acts as a contact > manager for a telephony application and this is _exactly_ the behavior > I need. > > This sort of thing can with more pain be made cross browser ... but I > don't need that, at least not now. For now just getting it to work with > FF is enough. > > Maybe I will bring this to the LPSG on Thursday (Or the new Python > meetup that Chris is pushing). It is an AJAX app with Python on the > backend ... >
I'd like to see a demo. Thursday (the 16th) is the "SnakeCharmers" meeting which has an announced TurboGears presentation. Chris's page is at http://snakecharmers.org/ If nothing else develops, perhaps you could consider a show-n-tell at the LPSG on Dec 7th. Regards, ..jim -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
