[SOLVED] Sound breaks things in certain browsers.

[Michdd]

I have a simple thing that plays a sound during certain times. However in browsers (or with users..) that don't have quicktime installed it seems to just break the javascript function completely. Is there a way to check if a user has quicktime installed?

[Michdd]

Or possibly a more universal way to play sound. Currently the way that I'm doing which is causing problems in certain browsers (especially Opera) is:

 

<embed src="recv_4.wav" autostart=false width=0 height=0 id="sound1"
enablejavascript="true">

function EvalSound(soundobj) 
{
     var thissound=document.getElementById(soundobj);
     thissound.Play();
}

 

Then a call like EvalSound('sound1');

[Axeia]

Think your best bet would be using flash

[Michdd]

Think your best bet would be using flash

I don't think that would work good because I'm playing this whenever I get a certain result from ajax.

[Axeia]

Well get creative, make it autoplay, add it to the document when ajax does whatever you have it doing, then remove it x seconds later when it's done.

 

Or do it the proper way and do some reading up as javascript can interact with flash

[Michdd]

Well get creative, make it autoplay, add it to the document when ajax does whatever you have it doing, then remove it x seconds later when it's done.

How does that help me in making it work in other browsers?

[Axeia]

By the number of people with flash installed being far greater than that of those with quicktime installed? And flash is available crossbrowser and crossplatform.

[DarkSuperHero]

look into the built in ExternalInterface in AS3....

http://livedocs.adobe.com/flash/9.0/ActionScriptLangRefV3/flash/external/ExternalInterface.html

 

this allows javascript to call a function/method inside your Flash Movie......

 

I would suggest flash is the best way to go for sound also....

[Michdd]

Thanks, this is solved. I used Flash with javascript.