[vorbis] Ogg-Friendly Browser configuration

[Nathan I. Sharfi]

On Tue, 5 Aug 2003, Glendon M. Gross wrote:

> Forgive me if this is considered off topic, but is there a simple way to set up
> Netscape on *NIX to play ogg files
> via xmms or ogg123?   It seems to me that this should be simple, but I have yet
> to succeed in this simple task.
>
> If anyone has written documentation re: how to configure Netscape 4.x to play
> .ogg files, I would be
> thankful to see a link.  These days, the browser is becoming the standard way to
> play many types of content,
> and I would like to configure my browser "correctly" for this task [i.e. in an
> "ogg-friendly" way.]
>
> Regards,
>
> Glendon Gross

Have you considered using a non-ancient browser like Mozilla? Netscape 4.x's
handling of web standards is nothing short of atrociously bad to the point
where I have to hide all style information from Netscape in order to keep it
from (1) displaying things incorrectly (2) crashing. Have a look at
http://www.icecast.org in both Netscape 4 and a modern browser (IE6,
IE5/Mac, Mozilla and Safari are all modern) and notice the difference. Ditto for
http://www.speex.org/ .

That said, see what you can do to associate both application/ogg and
application/x-ogg with xmms as their handler. However, you may need to
convince more than a few webmasters to serve up the proper (application/ogg)
MIME type with their files.

AddType application/ogg .ogg

in httpd.conf or .htaccess should do the trick.

Nathan
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