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From: Phil Teare
Date: Nov 9, 2006 10:10AM

Hi

The system is tailored to the majority...

It uses Javascript and audio plugins (in IE thats an ActiveX)

For all out of the box installs, it should work for XP, Vista, OS x on
IE5.5and 6, Safari, and Firefox. Opera is not yet supported.

Firefox does work on XP and OSx if you let it install the plugin.

So you've been very unlucky. Its the bain of of developers that there will
always be poeple in your position who use a sytem the is either
incompatible, or set not to use their tech.

I'd love more detail on you FF problem as it should (does) work with audio
pugins installed. Opera is on the "Future" devcycle list. Which means not
immediate, but should happen within the year.

If you prevent ActiveX in IE then it can't work, as you've switched off the
tech needed.

One solution coming soon is a Flash version. This will add 'out of the box'
compatibility with Ubuntu.

Like I say, get in touch re the ff problem. (phil.a.teare#AT#Googlemail.com)

Cheers
Phil



On 09/11/06, Philip Kiff < <EMAIL REMOVED> > wrote:
>
> Phil Teare wrote on 9 November 2006 04:18:
> > [....]Now
> > that audio is available to most why not offer it (interest declared,
> > but please do try www.talklets.com , it starts at free.)
>
> I just tried to check out Talklets on a few of my main browsers but it's
> not
> running correctly with my current settings. I usually have all my
> browsers
> set with ActiveX disabled, as well as a fairly high level of
> security/privacy/cookies/control protection against scripts and plugins,
> so
> I'm sure the problem is related to those settings. But I don't have time
> to
> figure out what needs to be enabled on each browser.
>
> Do you have a simple list of what
> security/cookie/JavaScript/ActiveX/plugin
> settings need to be enabled/disabled for Talklets to work?
>
> OS:
> XP SP2
>
> Browsers:
>
> Opera 9.02
> - no toolbar shows
> - no warning or notice displayed
>
> MSIE 6.0
> - toolbar shows, text will highlight, but no sound
> - top of window warning saying that ActiveX is not enabled and may prevent
> page from displaying properly
>
> Firefox 1.5.0.7
> - toolbar shows, text will highlight, but no sound
> - top of window message saying that additional plugins are required to
> display all the media on this page, but clicking for more info says no
> suitable plugin found
>
> Phil.
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