Pages that beep on cell phones

February 2, 2007 11:42 AM

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?
posted by baggers to Computers & Internet (8 answers total)

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.
posted by drjimmy11 at 11:52 AM on February 2, 2007

I'm pretty sure there's no way to make a web page that makes my phone beep, period.
posted by trevyn at 12:01 PM on February 2, 2007

3rding the notion that you won't make mobile phones beep. Sorry.
posted by twiggy at 12:05 PM on February 2, 2007

Would this have to work for Lynx too?
posted by adamrice at 12:17 PM on February 2, 2007

Well, Lynx you can at least send ^G's to, right? (It's been a while....)
posted by nebulawindphone at 12:22 PM on February 2, 2007

Response by poster: adamrice: no Lynx required, but it would need to work with all embedded cell phone browsers
posted by baggers at 12:38 PM on February 2, 2007

it would need to work with all embedded cell phone browsers

Yeah, that would be a definite no.
posted by trevyn at 1:09 PM on February 2, 2007

n-thing the "no". The mobile phone thing just isn't going to happen.
posted by blag at 4:52 AM on February 3, 2007