HTML5 Audio tag

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In the past, the openwebmail needs QuickTime plugin to pronounce "You've got mail!" with the <embed> tag.

Apple stopped supporting it for windows and the last available version is 7.7.9.

I checked online and found HTML5 provides a similar function without the need of the plugin. It is either the <video> or <audio> tag that can play audio and video.

I then changed the source code of openwebmail (openwebmail-main.pl and openwebmail-read.pl) to use the HTML <audio tag>.

Old:

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$html.=qq|<embed src="$config{'ow_htmlurl'}/sounds/$prefs{'newmailsound'}" autostart="true" hidden="true">\n|;

New:

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$html.=qq|<audio autoplay>\n<source src="$config{'ow_htmlurl'}/sounds/$prefs{'newmailsound'}" type="audio/wav">\n</audio>\n|;

It worked as expected.

<video> tag can do similar. More to explore.