It would be nice to be able to embed sound (.mp3) and flash (xx.swf) files in thaivisa correspondence or blogs, but maybe this is not possible? I haven't been successful at it.

Taking a sound file as an example, usually in a web page you can do something like this:

<EMBED SRC="www.thailanguageschool.com/sounds/p1to10.mp3" CONTROLS=SMALLCONSOLE>

Can't do it on Thaivisa (blogs, for example).

On the other hand if I put in this code:

[url=http://www.thailanguageschool.com/sounds/p11to23.mp3][b][color=#CC0000]here[/color][/b][/url].

It shows up like this:

here.

and will open a new browser which opens whatever program you have that plays mp3 files. But this is more complicated, better if the sound just played in your browser.

Any ideas? Is there a blog technical guru out there (I can't get any response from moderators/administrators)

Thanks much,

Swelters

Simple, not supported file formats on TV.

It is partly an effort to keep the bandwidth usable to as many people as possible. (Or so I have been led to believe) There may be other reasons, but I think that is the main one.

^^^^^^

Yep, that has to be the reason.

I for one don't want naff noises or slow-loading animations/videos that I can't turn off. Many users are on dial-up or GPRS and just cannot afford the bandwidth.

Makes sense, thanks for the clarification.

Swelters