We have a problem where a modal dialog is preventing Windows Media Player from playing a sound. What's interesting is that it only does it when the modal dialog is launched by a child window. If the modal dialog is launched by the parent window, the sound plays without issue.
Consider the following code...
<object id='MediaPlayer' width='0' height='0' classid='CLSID:22d6f312-b0f6-11d0-94ab-0080c74c7e95' type='application/x-oleobject'><param name='FileName' value='notify.wav' /><param name='PlayCount' value='9999' /></object><script>
var child = window.open("child.htm");
window.setTimeout("window.showModalDialog('child.htm');", 5000);
window.setTimeout("child.showModalDialog('child.htm');", 15000);</script>First, we program Windows Media Player to loop a sound. Then open a child window and set two timers. 5 seconds later, the main window launches a modal dialog - the sound continues to loop. (close the dialog) 10 seconds after that, the child window launches a modal dialog - and the sound stops. Once the dialog is closed, the sound resumes.
For a live demo... http://curtisdehaven.com:5000/ieissue/
What's up with that?
