I, and I'm sure others as well, use flashblock. So we'd end up with an ugly play button floating in the web page if we were to fall back on it. And then, the browser would have to download a flash movie to play the sound. It seems kinda clumsy to me, but we'll see how it goes.
I personally don't like flash. OK... I hate flash actually. Until intel macs came out, flash would cripple the system just to animate some stupid vector based trendy ill designed eye candy. Blech. Yes I agree about the bloat. For performance, we should play an empty sound when sounds.js is loaded. That will warm up/cache whatever audio playing mechanism we're to use later on. Well damn it looks like I have a lot of learning to do with SVN... On Mar 6, 3:57 am, Thomas Fuchs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Am 06.03.2007 um 05:47 schrieb jules: > > > I don't know how to made modifications > > with Trac/SVN... can you email me some quicks instructions? (Mac/ > > BBEdit preferred or PC/UlraEdit) > > Google is your friend:http://svnbook.red-bean.com/nightly/en/ > svn.basic.html :) > > > Later we should fall back on Window Media, Real, WinAmp, VLC, etc. I > > need to find out which loads and plays audio the quickest and create a > > list of plugins ordered by preference. > > I don't think this is a good solution. This will just blow up the > code just to support some edge cases we can't test easily. The embed > tag already uses a audio/mpeg mimetype, so other plugins should be > able to pick that up. You'll also get into all sorts of version hell. > I feel spending time on improving the performance and stability of > what's already there is better invested. :) > > First thing, we need proper unit tests (we only have the functional > test right now). > > I *can* imagine the flash fallback, so we reach a huge majority of > users (namely, the last few % that are composed of FF/Win without > QuickTime). > > Best, > Thomas > > > > > > > -Jules > > > On Mar 5, 6:59 pm, Thomas Fuchs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> There probably needs a check added for this, or maybe just the "Win" > >> check removed-- care to investigate? :) > > >> Best, > >> Thomas > > >> Am 06.03.2007 um 00:24 schrieb Christophe Porteneuve: > > >>> jules a écrit : > >>>> The absolute very last thing I wanted out of this is for the > >>>> user to > >>>> be prompted to install a plugin or run an active-X. > > >>> AAMOF, on FF2 with no audio/mpeg plugin (I'm on Debian), I do get > >>> prompted (in a sliding topbar) to install a plugin :-( > > >>> -- > >>> Christophe Porteneuve a.k.a. TDD > >>> "[They] did not know it was impossible, so they did it." --Mark > >>> Twain > >>> Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > -- > Thomas Fuchs > wollzelle > > http://www.wollzelle.com > > questentier on AIM > madrobby on irc.freenode.net > > http://www.fluxiom.com:: online digital asset > managementhttp://script.aculo.us:: Web 2.0 JavaScripthttp://mir.aculo.us:: > Where no web developer has gone before --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Spinoffs" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-spinoffs?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
