I’m running through a set of things to do in a Freeway session with students tomorrow. I gave the Sound FX action a whirl… and it’s just not working, locally or from a server. The MP3 file works fine when accessed directly, it’s just the action that doesn’t work.
Anyone else have trouble with this action? Any suggestions?
Confused… k
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It does work - http://deltadesign.co/FW7Test/soundfx.html - just not in later Safari versions. Something to do with QT.
However I have found that small .wav files are best.
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Meh. If it doesn’t work as billed in the current Safari then it’s broken, even if the fault lies in Safari. :-/
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If it doesn’t work as billed in the current Safari then it’s broken,
So are certain CSS3 attributes ‘broken’ because IE doesn’t support them?
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Heh. No, that’s comparing apples to rotten, mouldy oranges that are long past their sell-by date. IE is broken by design.
Safari is the default browser for Mac and iOS users. It’s important for regular Freeway features to work in Safari. Many years back, when changes were made to the way JavaScript worked in Safari and Freeway’s rollovers stopped working, that was a change that broke Freeway’s output. The fix to that involved a change in the way Freeway produced its rollover code.
The same sort of thing applies here: if something has changed in how Safari works – and if the change isn’t a Safari bug – it’s down to Freeway to accommodate that.
IE’s inability to support certain standards is a different kettle of fish. 
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Hi Keith,
This may be too late for your class, but make sure there’s no apostrophe in the filename - I just did a quick test to make sure it worked here and it failed first time because of that. It worked once I tried a different file though.
Joe
On 25 Jan 2016, at 13:15, thatkeith email@hidden wrote:
Heh. No, that’s comparing apples to rotten, mouldy oranges that are long past their sell-by date. IE is broken by design.
Safari is the default browser for Mac and iOS users. It’s important for regular Freeway features to work in Safari. Many years back, when changes were made to the way JavaScript worked in Safari and Freeway’s rollovers stopped working, that was a change that broke Freeway’s output. The fix to that involved a change in the way Freeway produced its rollover code.
The same sort of thing applies here: if something has changed in how Safari works – and if the change isn’t a Safari bug – it’s down to Freeway to accommodate that.
IE’s inability to support certain standards is a different kettle of fish.
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Hi Joe
No apostrophes in my file names “mouse-click.wav” and “mouseclick.wav” and it doesn’t work in Safari at http://www.deltadesign.co/FW7Test/soundfx.html
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They both work fine for me in Safari, as did your original page. I’m in Yosemite, Safari 9.0.3
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No apostrophes in my file names “mouse-click.wav” and “mouseclick.wav” and it doesn’t work in Safari at http://www.deltadesign.co/FW7Test/soundfx.html
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They both work fine for me in Safari, as did your original page. I’m in Yosemite, Safari 9.0.3
I am on El Capitan 10.11.2 and Safari 9.0.2
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Interesting aspect:
… a higher Safari version on a (slightly) older system?
Am on the exact same config as D. - with the same result (if it is even necessary to mention 
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Am on the exact same config as D. - with the same result (if it is even necessary to mention
Now on 10.11.3 with Safari 9.0.3 and still not working.
See my Off Topic post about a Safari address bar bug.
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So am I to understand that the Sound FX Action is now broken? I just tried to attach a sound to a jpg file on my website home page so that when someone clicks on the image a sound plays. It doesn’t play. I tried both a .wav and .mp3 file. Nothing. Something is loading because I get a quick progress bar when I click on the image. So if Sound FX isn’t working, what can I use instead? Thanks.
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Could you post a link to the page where you tried this?
Walter
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So am I to understand that the Sound FX Action is now broken? I just tried to attach a sound to a jpg file on my website home page so that when someone clicks on the image a sound plays. It doesn’t play. I tried both a .wav and .mp3 file. Nothing. Something is loading because I get a quick progress bar when I click on the image. So if Sound FX isn’t working, what can I use instead? Thanks.
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Here is the website: www.zebraradio.com Click on the round zebra icon. The sound (.wav file) is attached but only on the home page.
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This doesn’t look like the SoundFX Action to me, it is using a JavaScript module called MediaPlayer, which is not a part of Scriptaculous.
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Here is the website: www.zebraradio.com Click on the round zebra icon. The sound (.wav file) is attached but only on the home page.
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I’m not sure what you’re seeing, Walter, but I’m looking at the Actions palette for this page and it says Sound FX when I click on the image.
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You’re right. I just looked again. The problem is the space in the filename. URLs cannot have spaces in them – anywhere, and the filename (and folder names) you use in your site all get mashed together into a URL.
Resources/Liner-Horse-1-Neigh%201610.wav needs to become Resources/Liner-Horse-1-Neigh-1610.wav (%20 is what a browser turns a space into, but the JavaScript throws a hissy fit when it sees that).
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I’m not sure what you’re seeing, Walter, but I’m looking at the Actions palette for this page and it says Sound FX when I click on the image.
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I re-labeled the sound file and uploaded it. As it turns out, the audio file plays fine on Firefox but not Safari. So, obviously I must have the play audio file blocked for that site on Safari. Thanks for the info, Walter.
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