Sound notifications
After not realising that I’d received an MSG message the other day because the window that received the message was buried under a heap of other windows, though I’d look at adding message beep when a new message arrives (MSGAlert already does this – but not the web client or MSG API). However it appears that using javascript (which is what I’d need to use) to trigger sounds in the browser seems to be fraught with browser (and audio player plugin) differences. I did find SoundManager2 which worked really well as it essentially uses an invisible Flash object to play the sound.
But then I tried (and failed) to get this implemented into the MSG Netvibes widget, and I *think* this is to do with the way Netvibes restricts calling external (to the widget XML) javascript code, whch is kind of a shame as that’s exactly where I wanted to put a beep notification. I’ll probably have another go at this next week to see if I can get this working – though I’m not too confident! I should also figure out how GTalk handles beeping when you get a new message.
