On Thu, 30 Sep 2004 11:32:43 +0200, Gerard Meijssen
<gerardm(a)myrealbox.com> wrote:
Hoi,
One difference with pictures is, that when you save a screen with a
picture on it, you save the picture at the same time. When you save an
"image" with a sound, you do NOT save the sound at the same time.
I'm not sure what you mean by "save a screen with a picture on it" -
do you mean pressing "save" in the browser and using some "save web
page complete with all its bits" function?
The
problem is that when people prepare their computer to use .ogg files.
One stage is to check if you can hear .ogg files locally. This means
that you have to HAVE an .ogg file.
Well, if you click a Media: link to a .ogg file, and there's nothing
set up to load it, you'll be asked to save the file, like any other
unrecognised download. So then you'll have an Ogg.
Yesterday I mentioned that sounds being
"Image"s for wikimedia is
counterintuitive, today I ask for a Sound detail screens which has the
option to download the sound,
This might actually be quite a good idea, because Media: links have an
annoying flaw: since they by-pass the description page, you can't
access a description through them. If we had a proper Sound: (or,
thinking ahead, AV: or some other combined term for sounds and videos,
which are generally treated similarly) namespace, we could have magic
links like we do for images.
[[Image:foo]] gives you an inline image, plus access to a description
page; [[Sound:foo]] (or [[AV:foo]]) could give you a direct link to
the file (marked "Play", or with that symbol that always means 'play')
plus a link to a description, which would include help; or maybe a
third link to help, giving something like:
+-----------------------------------------+
| Listen to foo. |> [Info] [Help] |
+-----------------------------------------+
If we wanted to be *really* clever, we could provide options for using
inline browser plugins to play the sound, but given the desire to
support as many alternatives as possible, that may be a bit complex...
--
Rowan Collins BSc
[IMSoP]