Quick problem for anyone who can solve this...I just need the help, please. Simply put, I want to be able to make a audio player (yahoo's media player), continue to play music no matter if the person clicks on a different page. Like, on the homepage you can start the player, and go into a different section of the website and the media player will not reset and start over. The persons listening experience goes uninterrupted...is there a solution to this problem?? Help please. Kudos to any. the site to find what I'm speaking on is push36.com Thanks in advance
Just general thoughts. Following links forces browser to fetch pages and parse them, create objects, so on. So I doubt there is general solution. But you can make ajax site which looks exactly like normal one, but on clicking links just fetches and updates certain parts of a page making it look like page reload. You can even make it work for people without Javascript enabled, but mediaplayer definetely won't work Hope that would help. BTW framed site can be a solution too ))
You weren't very clear I thought you meant that site has what your looking for. Anyways, there are a few possible ways. Like mmua said, you could use ajax to load the pages on clicks to make it look like a page load. But, search engines still have problems with ajax so it would be bad for SEO. You could use frames, but again it is bad for SEO. You could store the status of the player and the position of the song in a cookie, and have the song resume when the next page is loaded. But the user would have to wait for it to buffer. Your best option would probably be to open the player in a popup window (even though everyone hates popups).
there is nothing bad with ajax and seo since links can be ajaxified. So if javascript works visitor gets ajax interface. If not - he will get full page loads.
thanks for all replies firstly....secondly, I like the idea of having an ajax page, that seems cool, or viable option #2, a flash site...thing is, I'm very cash strapped at these times, but I'm willing to pay for whatever, just as long as its not over the top, crazy expensive. know what I mean. so if one of you polite gentlemen, can refer me to a page or site, that offers a script (possibly?) or one that sells scripts, that'll be awesome...(don't know DP's policies on linking, so if it IS a problem with linking to another site, hit me on PM)...again, I appreciate you guys replies...everyone needs help from time to time, and people like you all are like heroes.