Marisa Ciceran wrote:
Ed, et al,
Last Saturday, my sole working partner on our web site passed away
unexpectedly in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia! While I am in New York
and cannot attend his funeral today, I've had to stop everything else I
am doing and switched gears.
Marissa, condolences on your loss! Terribly sorry to hear this.
But, I will say that this latest round of <object> script gave me
renewed hope. On a quick first try using Seamonkey 2.19 and IE 8 alone,
there was no sound with either browser on your test page at
http://edmullen.net/mozilla/embed_test_midi.php. Both SM and IE asked
for authorization to "view" the script. Both browsers prompted me to get
the Quicktime plugin.
IE then revealed the control bar, but did nothing beyond that. SM,
instead, went the same route as it has many times before during this
exercise. It gave me the dialog box saying that the Quicktime plugin was
not installed (obviously, because it is already installed) and then
prompted me to install it manually. I check that option and it sent me
to that ol' familiar page at http://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/
for the full program. I didn't bother downloading Quicktime again since
it already installed on my system (and working independently, too) -
same issue as before.
If it were me? I'd create a new clean profile in SeaMonkey.
I'd then uninstall Quicktime entirely. Then download the full program,
the free one, not the "Pro" paid version. Then install it (with all
browsers closed.) Then run SM and access your site using the new SM
profile and see if that fixes the issue.
Since MP3 files work with no problems other than the requirement of a
visible control bar, when I am able to back on [sound] track, I will
eliminate all the active MIDI file references that I can find on our
website. I don't yet know if there is a way to do a global search on my
website on just the <embed> script. Is there?
Yes there is IF ...
I don't recall your exact situation. Do you develop the site locally on
your PC? With an exact copy of all the files that make up the site? If
so, any good text editor (I use EditPad Pro) can open all the HTML or
PHP etc. files that are the pages for your site and do a global find and
replace. It's easy and fast. Make the changes and FTP them up to the
server. I do this periodically for my sites. Works great.
FYI, I went to the URL you supplied
http://www.istrianet.org/istria/index.html
and music played without issue in my SeaMonkey.
So, something is up with your install of Quicktime and SeaMonkey.
Just be aware, and I think someone else said this up-thread, YOU can't
control how music works when I view your site in my browser(s). I
decide that by the settings on my systems(s). I may have my systems set
to never play music online. And you can't really know that or do
anything about it.
Think about it. I'm sitting here listening to music on my PC in my
headphones while brosing the Internet. I do NOT want any Web site
tossing any sounds in my ears to interrupt my music listening. So I
prevent that. If I see a page that has enough visually enticing
material that makes me want to listen, I will make the choice to pause
MY music and allow the site's sounds to play. It's a design issue.
And one that may annoy possible visitors to your site.
A final question: when I resume this topic, shall I start a new thread
or continue this one?
My preference would be to reply to this thread.
--
Ed Mullen
http://edmullen.net/
"I have not failed, I've just found 10,000 ways that won't work." -
Thomas Edison
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