Comments on: Pages that beep on cell phones

Question: Pages that beep on cell phones

baggers — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 11:42:52 -0800

I'm trying to build a web page that beeps for some testing I am doing. Not a problem, you might think: just embed a beepy .wav file. But I need the page to beep in all web browsers, including the crappy ones on cell phones that don't work with embedded files. Any suggestions?

By: drjimmy11

drjimmy11 — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 11:52:16 -0800

my first instinct would be "use Flash."

I'm not up on all the phone browsers, but if they don't support any embedded files, including Flash, then I think you might be SOL. I don't think there's a way to make plain HTML beep.

By: trevyn

trevyn — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 12:01:47 -0800

I'm pretty sure there's no way to make a web page that makes my phone beep, period.

By: twiggy

twiggy — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 12:05:23 -0800

3rding the notion that you won't make mobile phones beep. Sorry.

By: adamrice

adamrice — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 12:17:13 -0800

Would this have to work for Lynx too?

By: nebulawindphone

nebulawindphone — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 12:22:46 -0800

Well, Lynx you can at least send ^G's to, right? (It's been a while....)

By: baggers

baggers — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 12:38:45 -0800

adamrice: no Lynx required, but it would need to work with all embedded cell phone browsers

By: trevyn

trevyn — Fri, 02 Feb 2007 13:09:40 -0800

it would need to work with all embedded cell phone browsers

Yeah, that would be a definite no.

By: blag

blag — Sat, 03 Feb 2007 04:52:58 -0800

n-thing the "no". The mobile phone thing just isn't going to happen.