293410 - Mozilla should have built-in support for all standard platforms

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 92110

(Core :: DOM: Core & HTML, enhancement)

Description

[jdperlow]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7.7) Gecko/20050414 Firefox/1.0.3
Build Identifier: 

A browser appliction author cannot depend on the browser to provide sound
support (simple ability to play a wav file). It depends on what else happens to
be installed on the computer (e.g. flash, quicktime, etc.,). Also, even when a
pluggin is installed that supports it, the behavior varies depending on which
pluggin and version happens to be installed. For example, we've found some
pluggins cause the browser to freeze while the sound is being downloaded or
cause focus to be lost when the sound is played.

Sound support should be part of the baseline mozilla platform like it is part of
the base IE platform. It should have a predictible download and play behavior
that is consistent and reliable across all platforms.

Reproducible: Always

Comment 1

[Elmar Ludwig]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 92110 ***

Comment 2

[Darin Fisher]

Is this really a duplicate of bug 92110?

jst: this bug seems to be more about playing sound files via the DOM or via some
plugin.  does that mean this bug belongs in some plugin or DOM category instead?

Comment 3

[Elmar Ludwig]

Darin: Feel free to reopen if you disagree.

See also bug 179586 (which has been WONTFIXed without a lot of discussion).