Re: Sound on/off button does not work

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From	"Fokke Nauta" <fnautaNO@SPAMiae.nl>
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Subject	Re: Sound on/off button does not work
Date	Sat, 10 Dec 2011 13:40:59 +0100
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"Denis McMahon" <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> wrote in message 
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> On Wed, 07 Dec 2011 12:46:13 +0100, Fokke Nauta wrote:
>
>> I searched for a sound on/off button for web pages.
>
> I tend to provide links to any multi media files that are related to web
> pages that I write, rather than try and force users to view / listen to
> them.

I fully agree.

> It goes along with my gross distaste for websites written in flash /
> silverlight / etc.
>
> OK they can look very glossy, but they start getting painfully slow on
> some machines and hogging resources, and I often end up navigating away
> from the website and looking elsewhere.

Fully agree as well.

> So, is the audio file actually essential to the enable the user to
> understand the website content, or is it an aesthetic add-on that could
> be safely dumped?
>

Well, if it was up to me, I would dump it straight away. And whether the 
add-on is aesthetic or not is discussable.
But the owner of a website wanted this sound as a background sound on 
multiple pages. Happily he came up with the idea that visitors would have 
been able to turn of this sound.

Regards,
Fokke

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Sound on/off button does not work "Fokke Nauta" <fnautaNO@SPAMiae.nl> - 2011-12-07 12:46 +0100
  Re: Sound on/off button does not work Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2011-12-07 16:42 +0000
    Re: Sound on/off button does not work "Fokke Nauta" <fnautaNO@SPAMiae.nl> - 2011-12-07 19:48 +0100
      Re: Sound on/off button does not work "Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi> - 2011-12-08 00:09 +0200
        Re: Sound on/off button does not work David Mark <dmark.cinsoft@gmail.com> - 2011-12-07 16:03 -0800
          Re: Sound on/off button does not work "Fokke Nauta" <fnautaNO@SPAMiae.nl> - 2011-12-08 20:23 +0100
            Re: Sound on/off button does not work Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2011-12-09 00:10 +0000
              Re: Sound on/off button does not work David Mark <dmark.cinsoft@gmail.com> - 2011-12-08 16:40 -0800
            Re: Sound on/off button does not work David Mark <dmark.cinsoft@gmail.com> - 2011-12-08 16:46 -0800
    Re: Sound on/off button does not work David Mark <dmark.cinsoft@gmail.com> - 2011-12-07 15:55 -0800
  Re: Sound on/off button does not work Denis McMahon <denismfmcmahon@gmail.com> - 2011-12-09 00:41 +0000
    Re: Sound on/off button does not work "Fokke Nauta" <fnautaNO@SPAMiae.nl> - 2011-12-10 13:40 +0100

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