471791 - play audio on pseudo-event

Status: RESOLVED WORKSFORME

(Core :: SVG, defect)

Description

[jonathan chetwynd]

mouse over icon to hear audio: broken linux (latest ubuntu) 
audio plays fine when accessed directly ie:
http://www.peepo.co.uk/sound/en/splat.mp3

parity OS X wfm and has done so for more than a year.. possibly a few.

there may be a requirement to file a more general bug to play audio in background.
and another to cache locally, as this does not appear to be done at present....
eg for online game sound effects.

Comment 1

[Emmanuel Gil Peyrot]

Mozilla can’t play mp3, only Ogg Vorbis files for now. It works in Mozilla on another platform, so it’s handled by a plugin (quicktime, I guess).

In order to play sound, you have to use the audio xhtml element, as described here: http://dev.w3.org/html5/spec/video.html#audio (until SVG 1.2 will be implemented).

And finally, I don’t remember any CSS interface to the audio element. You have to use ECMAScript to play a sound when an event is fired.

I propose RESOLVED INVALID.

Comment 2

[jonathan chetwynd]

notwithstanding comment  #1,

the testcase http://www.peepo.co.uk/sound/en/splat.mp3 uses only css to play .mp3 onmouseover.

this testcase now works in Mozilla and Safari, Opera bug filed: [e-mail],