Why don't I see controls for embedded audio?
Firefox is mangling embedded audio files. Is there some setting that will fix this?
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tracking protection and adblocking is turned off for this site.
Can you post a link to a publicly accessible page (i.e. no authentication or signing on required)?
What code is used to play this file if you check this in the Inspector ?
You can also check the Web Console for possible (error) messages.
- "3-bar" menu button or Tools -> Web Developer
- https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/Tools/Web_Console
web console doesn't show anything unusual
code:
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url: https://carkiller.com/scottykilmer/qa/jeep-wrangler/#post-32602
Firefox doesn't support this audio format.
Web Console:
Cannot play media. No decoders for requested formats: audio/x-wav
Firefox doesn't play the most basic, common, and ancient audio file format.
Some browser.
There are no licensing fees for WAV. It's unencumbered. Why would Mozilla not include this??
This seems to be only a problem with the width of the player bar. I can play the WAV file via the right-click context menu.
You can use a JavaScript bookmarklet or run the code in the Web Console to set a usable width for this element.
- javascript:void(document.getElementsByTagName("audio")[0].style.width="300px");
I see, so ff DOES support wav.
it's just like I said. ff is mangling the UI.
Thanks for workaround, but this is a bug right?
It is not really a bug, but about the CSS code the website uses for this element that isn't working properly in Firefox as it sets no width explicitly.
if no width is specified, then obviously Firefox should render in such a way that the entire control is visible. Same as the other browsers. This is just ... garbage.