[Koha-devel] Koha Sound Events

[Kyle Hall]

Excellent. I hope your addition makes it in soon. Some of our
libraries requested the same feature, but this was years ago now, and
I had to do it using java applets. It didn't play well with thin
clients so I ended up disabling it.

Darrell++


Kyle
http://www.kylehall.info
Information Technology
Crawford County Federated Library System ( http://www.ccfls.org )




On Thu, Feb 4, 2010 at 11:35 AM, Darrell Ulm <darrellulm at smfpl.org> wrote:
> Kyle Hall <kyle.m.hall at ...> writes:
>
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>> Have you thought about using the HTML 5 <audio> tag?
>>
>> http://html5doctor.com/native-audio-in-the-browser/
>>
>
> Kyle,
>
> Yes, the HTML5 did the trick for Mozilla (using 3.6).
> It is fast and there is
> *no* delay and no page refresh. It just works.
>
> OK, so the *other* browsers don't yet implement it,
> but they should if they want
> to stay compliant. Koha primarily supports Firefox
> so this should not be an issue.
>
> They can play catch up. I just did the following:
>
> <!-- TMPL_IF NAME="soundon" -->
> <script type="text/javascript" language="javascript">
> if ( get_cookie( "kohastaffsound" ) == "yes" )
>        {
>        document.write('<audio src="/intranet-tmpl/prog/sound/beep.wav" autoplay
> autobuffer></audio>');
>        }
> </script>
> <!-- /TMPL_IF -->
>
> Sound on is the syspref.
>
> The HTML 5 autoplay and especially the autobuffer appear to make it work very
> nicely.
>
> Well, I have a bunch of open source sounds (Artistic Licence 2.0) so I can
> finish this up and have Galen "soundly" reject it!  (Just a joke Galen)   :)
>
> -Darrell Ulm
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