When I program, it’s usually something new – testing a new function, illustrating the implementation of a new idea, or what have you. The point: often, I don’t know the scope of the problem at first, and it ends up more challenging than expected. (An example was when I realized the bell doesn’t work on my Linux computer; see my post here<\/a>.)<\/p>\n But statistically, wouldn’t you expect at least, that some programming problems end up simpler then expected? Maybe not so often, but it certainly does happen, and here’s an example: putting sound on a web page.<\/p>\n Perhaps going back to the workaround I developed for my Linux computer’s bell, I’ve become fascinated by sound files and how to activate them from programs. Yesterday I wondered about activating a sound from JavaScript. I checked around, but nothing jumped. I came to wonder if incorporating sound on a web page is even easier than I’d thought. Can it, I asked, just be done with a file link? The answer turns out to be yes.<\/p>\n I’m showing two ways in this post: one with the <embed><\/em> tag, the other with the simple <a><\/em> tag. The <embed><\/em> tag plays the sound spontaneously, whereas the <a><\/em> link you need to click to play the sound.
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