"Robert M Jones" wrote...
>I would appreciate some guidance on simple html coding for putting a midi 
>file in a page with a displayed player, so the user can choose to play it. 
>I'd like to code a midi file to play on as many platforms as possible - 
>certainly IE6,7,8 and Firefox 2 - 3.5
>
> I am trying to move away from embed tags but struggling to find a code 
> that works.
>
> I am not an expert on html or css - for my web editor I use a mixture of 
> Notepad and an opensource NvU clone called Konqueror (which has its 
> limitations) - and my site is laid out via tables. My editing skills are 
> limited to cut and paste on supplied code, altering things like filenames 
> and paths. Budget is limited - its a small charity site. I try and make 
> the pages error free using html tidy but using the old style tags means 
> they have lots of warnings.
>
> The code I use at present which seems to be sometimes problematic on 
> Firefox 3.5.3, (sometimes causing it to hang even in Safe Mode) is this
>
> click the play button to hear   <EMBED type=
>             "application/x-mplayer2" pluginspage=
>             "http://www.microsoft.com/Windows/MediaPlayer/" name=
>             "MediaPlayer" src="filename.mid" autostart=
>             "0" showstatusbar="0" volume="-1" height="40" width=
>             "80">
>
> After 2 or 3 plays of a a file, FF seems to hang and has to be closed in 
> Task manager.
>
> The other problem seems to be that in IE8 the displayed quicktime player 
> defaults to having its volume control at zero. Altering the code for 
> volume doesn't seem to have any effect on that.

I know squat about playing midi files in browsers, but incase you -or anyone 
else- have the option I will say that playing mp3 is getting easier by the 
week. (Go to istock, search for flash mp3 player and see what I mean)

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