Re: [edict-jmdict] New audio approach in WWWJDIC

[Ben Bullock <benkasminbullock@*********>]

On 28 April 2010 09:55, Jim Breen <jimbreen@gmail.com> wrote:

> I'd like to ask for a bit of road testing of a revised audio
> clip playing approach in WWWJDIC. The changes are
> in the testbed version at:
> http://www.csse.monash.edu.au/~jwb/cgi-bin/wwwjdic2.cgi?1C

It worked OK with Google Chrome, but once or twice the audio failed to
start. It would be nice to have a way to halt the audio part way
through.

> The revision has been devised by Charles Kelly, and involves
> a new .swf Flash player and revised Javascript. A lot of the
> Javascript has been moved to file which will be cached locally,
> thus reducing the size of the downloaded page. Also, the
> current system does a call to the server for every clip as the
> page loads, which whooped up the traffic at Monash. The revision
> eliminates that.
>
> I'm interested in feedback on as many OSs and browsers as
> possible.
>
> Current known issues:
>
> - IE needs a second click to get the audio playing (can this be lived with?)

I wonder if some users won't give up if it doesn't start playing the
first time, since there is no indication.

> - coming back to a page on which clips have been played may result in
> a chorus as they all repeat (bearable?)

I didn't notice that.