[17487] in Athena Bugs
Re: She sells sea shells by the sea shore
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (t. belton)
Mon Jan 24 12:47:26 2000
Date: Mon, 24 Jan 2000 12:47:15 -0500 (EST)
From: "t. belton" <tbelton@MIT.EDU>
To: John Hawkinson <jhawk@mit.edu>
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Actually, it's the noises of a train station.
I don't really know what you want me to do. The Flash plugin is working
exactly the way it's supposed to (to my surprise). Are you asking that we
turn sound off in Flash by default? I think that will probably get more
complaints than if people have the sounds coming out of their speaker.
Controlling where sound emanates on a given machine is, as far as I know,
a hardware/system issue and there isn't a Flash setting that affects it.
-Todd
On Mon, 24 Jan 2000, John Hawkinson wrote:
> I started netscape 4 from dash and went to www.acela.com
> and was shocked as the sound of waves and the sea
> came out of the speaker on this Ultra 5.
>
> I believe that represents a broken configuration default and it should be
> fixed. Presumably something should try to ensure that the default
> sound output is not the speakers. Perhaps fixing this properly
> requires an interaction with the release. But it needs to be fixed.
