Hover Button Alternative

[Guest]

I viewed all the previous comments regarding hover buttons and it's clear
that it's not suggested to use. Although, since my web page is solely for an
intranet, I was sort of hoping that would be an exception.

If it's not and it's not recommended to us hover buttons anytime (including
on an intranet), what would be a good option to play a sound file. I'm
creating a tutorial and I want users to have the option of clicking an icon
that will will play a wav file as backgound. If the hover button is not the
way to go, can someone tell me the best way to accomplish this. Thx, Dj

 

[Guest]

One more question while I'm at it. I'm searching the web trying to find a
way to do what I mention below and I keep coming across a funtion called
"fp_playsound". What exactly is that, some sort of public domain function?
I see it referenced, but I can't find any details on how to use it. Thanks
again.

 

[Ronx]

Hover buttons could be used on an Intranet if, and only if, every PC has
a JVM installed and operating. Many users disable JVM for security and
other reasons (the Sun JVM appears to be a resource hog and "kills" my
PC).
Hover buttons will not play a .wav file - the files must be converted to
..aif

 

[Mike Mueller]

Dynamic HTML / Interactive buttons would be the way to go

You could use an image of the desired button in the inactive
and hover states, and then use DHTML to do a swap on a hover


:I viewed all the previous comments regarding hover buttons
and it's clear
: that it's not suggested to use. Although, since my web
page is solely for an
: intranet, I was sort of hoping that would be an exception.
:
: If it's not and it's not recommended to us hover buttons
anytime (including
: on an intranet), what would be a good option to play a
sound file. I'm
: creating a tutorial and I want users to have the option of
clicking an icon
: that will will play a wav file as backgound. If the hover
button is not the
: way to go, can someone tell me the best way to accomplish
this. Thx, Dj

 

[Tom Miller]

Hover buttons could be used on an Intranet if, and only if, every PC has a

JVM installed and operating. Many users disable JVM for security and
other reasons (the Sun JVM appears to be a resource hog and "kills" my
PC).
Hover buttons will not play a .wav file - the files must be converted to
.aif

For what it worth, you can get some very nice "hover button like" effects
using CSS. When you mouse-over it will change-color/get slightly bigger and
so forth depending on how you set it up. Since this depends on CSS, your
browser does have to support CSS1 at least. It is nice because the time
spent downloading images with 2 different colors goes away.

But if you need "buttons" with specific images/designs your still going to
need javascript/dynamic html to make it work.

Thanks,
Tom Miller