THIS PAGE has some testing information for THE SUPER DUPER VOCAB TUTOR Many Thanks to: . http://developer.irt.org For very good javascript code . http://spanish.allinfo-about.com/ For good spanish wav sound files . http://www.wordreference.com/ Really good translations of words. TESTING: Netscape 4.61 on MS-Win2000 WORKING for lts.html but not ltf.html . ltf.html gives an error 'your disk cache is probably too small' thanks netscape . (css) background colours of form elements not rendered . returning false doesnt stop form submit . doesn't recognise
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. when trying to play an audio file with code below get error message... navigator.mimeTypes["audio/x-wav"].enabledPlugin has no properties This is because the plugin is not plugged in. . Using a hard coded embed, the browser attempts to contact the netscape site to download an audio plugin but cant find it because The Netscape site doesn't have it any more ('LiveAudio') . Have just spent an entire night (almost) trying to get NS 4.61 to play a sound. After finding the "LiveAudio" plugin filename = npaudio.dll - dont bother searching on the netscape site, you wont find it there, loading it etc The sound file would play from the default console in the web page but wont play programatically with the following code (which everybody on the internet is in agreement, should work. [embed name = "embedtest" width = "144" src = "estudiante.wav" loop=false autostart = "false" hidden = "false" MASTERSOUND] [form] [input type = "button" onclick = "document.embeds[1].play(LOOP=1);"] [/form] The solution to all this is to open another window and pass the url of the sound file to play as a query string. This works. Also use the so that the sound file plays as soon as the window opens. Once one window is open, netscape seems to use that same window for all following plays (which is good) TESTING: Netscape 4.61 on MS-Win98 . PROBABLY SHOULD WORK . All functions appear to work, no errors being generated but havent been able to check that sound files are actually being played. TESTING: IE 6.0 on MS-Win2000 The sound files would then take about 2 seconds (ADSL) for each to play after the 'w' command was given. But once that particular word (sound) had been played once, it would be played instantly from then on. On a modem connection each file takes about 5 seconds to play (this is probably to slow to be usefull) When the sound files were attempted to be preloaded with the 'soundObject.src = http://some.url' code there was still a delay of approximately two seconds (ADSL) before each sound file was played. In other words attempting to preload the sounds with the code above was not usefull. . All functions appeared to work. A version of the program which had urls without the http:// prefix on the urls did not play any sound. IE 5.0 on MS-Win2000 . Sounds files play, commands work . IE 5 seems to support the embedds array and actually played a sound that is embedded . Cant seem to preload sound files with bgSound.src or with [embed] tags When no intenet connection is available IE 5.0 is still able to find the sound files (from a previous internet session) in the temporary internet files folder, but only when the the sound files are refered to by exactly the same url as that which was used to download them . (including the protocol string) IE 4.7 on MS-Win98 . Seems to support the tag but havent actually heard sounds (because my sound card needs a driver) . All functions working but havent heard any sound yet. . Browser trivia.!! Do not use value = "" in the tag of a