270470 - appendChild(thisembed) does not result in sound being played

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: SVG, defect)

Description

[jonathan chetwynd]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8a5) Gecko/20041103 Firefox/0.9.1+
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC Mac OS X Mach-O; en-US; rv:1.8a5) Gecko/20041103 Firefox/0.9.1+

test file should play sound on opening file and again onmouseover yellow rect.

Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.open file, sound plays
2.mouseover yellow rect
3.

Actual Results:  
alert box showing that appendchild has added the element together with attributes

Expected Results:  
play sound as well

http://www.peepo.com uses innerHTML in very similar way, and plays new sound
onmousover. also tried innerHTML, did not work for me.

Comment 1

[jonathan chetwynd]

Attachment: dont use

needs file games.mp3 in the same directory

Comment 2

[jonathan chetwynd]

Attachment: sound file

Comment 3

[jonathan chetwynd]

Attachment: don't use

Comment 4

[jonathan chetwynd]

Attachment: plays mp3, but not onmouseover

Comment 5

[jonathan chetwynd]

for some reason, the cgi version does not show the innerHTML contents in the
alert dialogue.

the URL version does: http://peepo.co.uk/temp/append-sound.svg

Comment 6

[jonathan chetwynd]

Jim says

script should be: createElementNS(htmlNamespace,...)

changing to wfm until checked

 

Comment 7

[jonathan chetwynd]

Attachment: plays mp3 on mousover

Comment 8

[jonathan chetwynd]

use:

document.createElementNS("http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml", "embed");