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From: "Jukka K. Korpela" <jkorpela@cs.tut.fi>
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Subject: Re: Sound on/off button does not work
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2011-12-07 20:48, Fokke Nauta wrote:

> Well, I used the embed element on other webpages with the same doctype and
> it works perfectly.

Forget the doctype and validation issues for the moment. They do not 
affect the problem at hand.

The question is: can you expect the <embed> element to have play() and 
stop() methods?

You might consider using the HTML5 <audio> element, with its play() and 
pause() methods, but then you would need to deal with the varying 
support to this element (well, you could use <embed> as fallback 
content) and varying support to different audio media types with it.

Does it really pay off, as opposite to using <embed> with its own 
visible controls? I'd expect most users to prefer those controls (which 
they have encountered on other pages) to your site- or page-specific 
special controls.

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Yucca, http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/