Path: csiph.com!x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net!usenet.pasdenom.info!gegeweb.org!de-l.enfer-du-nord.net!feeder2.enfer-du-nord.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: "Fokke Nauta" Newsgroups: comp.lang.javascript Subject: Re: Sound on/off button does not work Date: Sat, 10 Dec 2011 13:40:59 +0100 Lines: 38 Message-ID: <9kh2asF4omU1@mid.individual.net> References: <9k9208FoloU1@mid.individual.net> <4ee15945$0$29435$a8266bb1@newsreader.readnews.com> X-Trace: individual.net JOzbwG29kKk5244C3dh2NQaa7lo/A0aI9HEajOpBx5cNf8xsO6 Cancel-Lock: sha1:cquEs7pDmAClr9BqKB2aLD+yZ+Y= X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2900.5931 X-RFC2646: Format=Flowed; Original X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2900.6157 Xref: x330-a1.tempe.blueboxinc.net comp.lang.javascript:9072 "Denis McMahon" wrote in message news:4ee15945$0$29435$a8266bb1@newsreader.readnews.com... > 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