Thread Subject: Re: Review of , and questions & concerns with 3Sept07 TEITAC draft

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From: Jim Allan
Date: Thu, Sep 06 2007 8:15 AM

Nice work Peter.

A comment on one item...

Peter Corn wrote:
> 3-J – Audio turnoff
> -> We should clarify the situation for web pages: better if the web
> browser had this responsibility, so web pages that played sound didn't
> have to explicitly include a 'turn sound off' button when the browser
> can do this function more universally (less burned on programmers to do
> this once in the browser). Perhaps this could be done in an advisory
> note...?

The browser (user agent) can only turn off sound that it knows about, such
as the <bgsound> element. If the author uses <embed> or <object> to contain
FLASH or media player sounds or some JavaScript to play the sound the
hosting user agent has no "knowledge" or control of what occurs in these
elements.

Jim

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