Hi Ray and list: I must confess, I was afraid to dabble in the anything to do with flash, so ignored that thread. Is it actually an update to safari, or another program I need to go find? TIA for filling me in. Carolyn H On Dec 28, 2010, at 4:38 AM, Ray Foret Jr wrote:
> Thanks Justin, > > Looks like we've got ourselves a very excellent confirmation here. This will > especially be useful to newbe users of Macs; because, now, they won't need to > struggle as we did to find the mouse method for playing audible samples. > That click to flash extension sure looks to me like it's more than proving > its worth. just one small detail. I'd recommend setting it to buffer but > not play automatically. Otherwise, every single sample on any audible page > will start playing at the same time. > > > Sincerely, > The Constantly Barefooted Ray!!! > > Now A Very Proud and very happy Mac user!!! > > Skype Name: > barefootedray > > On Dec 28, 2010, at 4:35 AM, Justin Ekis wrote: > >> Hi ray, >> >> I can confirm that I see this new behavior using click to flash, and that >> temporarily disabling the extension brings things back to the way they used >> to be. >> >> Either a recent click to flash update has added support for converting >> audible samples to html 5 elements, or the folks at audible have switched to >> using a different flash player that the extension already knows how to >> convert. Either way, this is excellent news. Thanks for the tip. >> >> On Dec 28, 2010, at 1:28 AM, Ray Foret Jr wrote: >> >> Just now, when I went to Audible.com I experienced something that never >> before happened. >> >> I opened the page, and, suddenly, all the samples on the page started to >> play at the same time. When they all finally stopped, I took a look at the >> page and noticed numorous audio element control tool bars all over the page. >> I mean they were all over the place. These audio element control tool bars >> are doubtless familiar to you if you've pressed VO+space on an mp3 file from >> say >> >> www.blindcooltech.com >> >> to play the file right off the servers. anyhow, I decided to take a closer >> look, so, I searched for a title I knew was there; I mean on the site. When >> I found the book I was looking for, I nnavigated to it and, guess what, next >> to the word "sample", there was an audio element control tool bar. At this >> point, I would have to conclude that the people at audible have heard us and >> made some major change to their page so that we no longer need to use the >> mouse method to play samples. As a qualifier, I must hasten to add that I >> have the anti flash extension, (I forgot the proper name of it for the >> moment), and, when I looked at the settings I had made for it, I found that >> it was set to buffer and start playing the video content automatically. >> With this in mind, I have two questions. >> >> 1. For those of you who also have this flash extension, have y'all noticed >> this difference in audible.com? >> >> 2. Now, for those of you without the extension, are you still needing to >> play samples using the mouse method? >> >> Thanks. >> >> >> Sincerely, >> The Constantly Barefooted Ray!!! >> >> Now A Very Proud and very happy Mac user!!! >> >> Skype Name: >> barefootedray >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> >> >> -- >> You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups >> "MacVisionaries" group. >> To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. >> To unsubscribe from this group, send email to >> macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. >> For more options, visit this group at >> http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. >> > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "MacVisionaries" group. > To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. > For more options, visit this group at > http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en. > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "MacVisionaries" group. To post to this group, send email to macvisionar...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to macvisionaries+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/macvisionaries?hl=en.
