Sick of sound!

[L. Shelton Bumgarner]

cal...@number.ten(Caller Number Ten) wrote:

>cvicker...@internorth.nospam.com (Charlene) wrote:
>>May I kvetch? I am sick and tired of webpages that have embedded sound. The
>>worst are those where the controls are only half-visible and you can't hit the
>>OFF button, and when you right-click on the controls nothing happens. You
>>can't shut the noise off.

>Absolutely right. An attempt to force sound on web site visitors is about
>the most rude and thoughtless feature you can add to a web page.

>I've changed the extensions of all of the files in my Netscape "plugins"
>directory so that I just get a pop-up warning window when I'm unfortunate
>enough to come across one of these sites. When that happens, I just think
>to myself, "What a jerk that web author is!" as I click cancel.

>Caller Number Ten

I've thought a little bit about this from an ad point of view -- it
would make a lot of sense if there was someway you could have
realaudio radio stuff playing in the background (full of ads) as you
browsed a site. Think of it as the Web's equvolent to department store
musak. But it wouldn't work for exactly the reasons discussed here.

bum

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