Chrome will not load a web page with an <embed> element
- by rossmcm
I have been trying to get a simple sound web page going:
Sound.html
<script>
function PlaySound ()
{
var
sounder = document.getElementById ("ToneA") ;
sounder.Play () ;
}
</script>
<embed id="ToneA" height="1" width="1" src="https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/311035/ToneA.mp3" autostart="false" enablejavascript="true"//>
<button onclick="PlaySound () ;">Play</button>
The test web page is here. It plays in IE, but not in Firefox or Chrome.
My problem: Chrome reports "Could not load VLC Plugin". It seems to be a known problem that the VLC community don't necessarily feel like fixing at the moment, and is a result of Google choosing not to allow some certain kind of plugin. If I disable the plugin I no longer get the message but nothing happens when I click the button. Looking at the console in a debug window I see
Uncaught TypeError: undefined is not a function Sound.html:7
PlaySound Sound.html:7
onclick
which suggests Chrome could not find anything else to handle the sound file. How to I tell Chrome to use (e.g.) Windows Media Player?
* UPDATE *
This is apparently because the VLC plugin is a NPAPI plugin and Chrome no longer supports these. I have uninstalled VLC and this has removed the error on loading the webpage with an embedded sound element, but it still doesn't invoke WMP instead.
