Well, the problem seems to be that sound.js detects IE and then uses
the bgsound tag to play music - but IE8 doesn't support bgsound. Hence
the problem. I'll see if I can hack it so it uses a plugin instead
like all the other browsers; if I can get it to work I'll post it
here.
On Apr 10, 8:30 pm, Junkshops <junksh...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Oof, I hope I'm not going to get labeled a spammer here... I just have
> lots of questions and this seems to be the place to go. My apologies
> in advance.
>
> So I've searched the list archives, the ruby on rails spinoffs
> archives, and did a general net search on this one and came up with
> nothing so I hope asking this isn't a faux pas.
>
> Anyway, I'm trying to play sound via the Sound.play() scriptaculous
> call. The code works fine in Opera, FF3, Safari, and IE6 (boggle
> [although it doesn't stream like it does in the others]) but doesn't
> work in IE8 (boggle). I have some pngs I'm swapping out whenever the
> user asks to play or stop a sound, and that works fine, so I know the
> code is being run. It just seems like IE8 is completely ignoring the
> Sound call. Is this a known bug or am I missing something?
>
> Source:
> var TuneToaster = Class.create({
>
> initialize: function(ele) {
> this.soundPrefix = "http://[redacted]/cgi-bin/
> stealingourtunesaintcoolseriously.py?id="
> this.idPrefix = "Song-";
> this.currentlyPlaying = null;
> var ele = $(ele);
> var players = ele.select('.JSmusicPlayer');
> players.invoke('update', '<img src="images/uglyPlay.png">');
> players.each(this.setupPlayer.bind(this));
> },
>
> setupPlayer: function(ele) {
> ele.observe('click',
> this.playerClicked.bindAsEventListener(this));
> },
>
> playerClicked: function(ev) {
> var elm = ev.findElement();
> ev.stop();
> elm = elm.up(); //for some reason elm is the img rather than
> the
> JSmusicPlayer span
> var idText = elm.identify();
> idText = idText.sub(this.idPrefix, '');
> if (this.currentlyPlaying) {
> this.currentlyPlaying.update('<img
> src="images/uglyPlay.png">');
> Sound.play('', {replace:true});
> if (this.currentlyPlaying == elm) {
> this.currentlyPlaying = null;
> return;
> }
> }
> elm.update('<img src="images/uglyStop.png">');
> this.currentlyPlaying = elm;
> Sound.play(this.soundPrefix + idText);
> }
>
> });
>
> Cheers, Junk
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