FF20 can finally play MP3's, because mozilla finally lets you use the
windows media codecs for html5 audio and video. The thing is it's turned
off by default and you need to turn it on in about:config, which is not
somewhere any, especially not advanced computer users, will look (the
only way I found out about it was through a tech news site).
That said I think just linking to the file will be much easier in the
long run if you want to support as many browsers, because sadly every
browser supports different files. Chrome does everything, FF normally
only does ogg and wav, but safari and IE don't do ogg, only mp3, which
isn't playable in firefox 19 and older... quite a pain to get something
that works everywhere.
I'd most likely end up streaming the file anyway... but I think you
should give people choice in this matter.
On 2013-04-29 22:08, Draconis wrote:
Glad you have it working, Kelly.
On an aside, we are not using Java for the audio player, just HTML. There is a
problem with some Firefox configurations, and with old versions of Internet
Explorer, since IE is horrible about standards and keeping up with the times.
We're working on fixing the Firefox issue, but not much we can do for old
versions of IE.
The reason that many places don't use MP3 downloads much any more is because,
for most, they are inconvenient. I, personally, hate sites that still make me
download an MP3 that I just want to listen to in the browser. Imagine if
YouTube did this for videos!
The VI community, in general, is one of the last groups to move, fighting all
along the way, with technology as it changes. This is a partial reason why we
see issues like the recent BSC situation with games that become obsolete. At
some point, we have to draw a line in the sand and say, we just can't support
those who choose to lag behind.
That being said, we're doing everything we can to support as wide a group as
possible. We wanted to drop XP support with the new game engine, but decided
not to for now. However, we won't hang on to it forever. We've gotten emails
from those upset we're not supporting Windows 98 anymore. We just can't.
We'll continue to do our best to make as many gamers happy as we can.
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