Technology is great... when it works!

03-05-10

span style="font:10px Verdana, serif; color:#242424;"img src="http://t3.gstatic.com/images?q=tbn:39abFZCjdnqjGM:http://www.wunschfeld.net/blog/uploaded_images/iphone_noFlash-742851.jpg" alt="" height="auto" width="auto" border="1" /br /As a follow-up to the footnote in the post below I'll mention that after Tweeting my frustration at not finding a simple non-Flash (mobile iFriendly) solution to SoundCloud playback on my blog I got a lot of (what seemed to be) useful tips. Unfortunately non of these were nearly as simple or as elegant a solution as I'd hoped - or even assumed - would be out there. Chief amongst the respondents was fellow musician and all round tech genius /spanspan style="font:10px Verdana, serif; color:#242424;"a href="http://twitter.com/Chris_Randall" rel="external" title="Chris Randall on Twitter"Chris Randall/a/spanspan style="font:10px Verdana, serif; color:#242424;" - who had some really good laterally thought-out ideas. br /br /So... unfortunately there isn't an immediate available, widely compatible solution and we have to wait for SoundCloud - and BandCamp - to update their webpage players to HTML5.br /If you are a web developer, web designer or are just interested in this subject Chris Randall has posted a detailed blog on his thoughts resulting from attempting workarounds to this unusually complex and (to me) unexpected web problem. It and the many replies make very interesting reading.br /br //spanspan style="font:10px Verdana, serif; color:#242424;"a href="http://www.analogindustries.com/blog/entry.jsp?msgid=1272836053974" rel="external" title="www.analogindustries.com"http://www.analogindustries.com/a/spandiv class="blogger-post-footer"img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/6518035575104885935-154437101472226034?l=c-h-r-i-s-c-a-r-t-e-r.blogspot.com' alt='' //div