CSS Azimuth

[centrationinc]

Does anyone have any actual uses for the Azimuth property within CSS? I know it has to do something with channeling sound or something like that but does it really have a real world use?

[ray326]

It indicates the "direction" the sound should be coming from. I'm sure Pink Floyd could find lots of use for it.

[centrationinc]

So basically I could attach this to a sound byte with a direction of say left speaker and itll only play on the left speaker?

[ray326]

Yes, or even "behind" if the user's got a theater sound set up.

[centrationinc]

Thats pretty interesting thank you. I could have some fun with that. Are there any other sound CSS constructors?

[ray326]

http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-CSS2/

Check that for the "aural" medium.

[felgall]

Just remember that your visitor has to be using a web reader in order for the aural stylesheet to be used. It works with the text content of the page to indicate the direction the web reader voice should come from when reading that text. It has no effect on sound files as sound files can't be specified in HTML. Sound files will use a separate program to play the sound and that program will determine how the sound file is played.

[dtm32236]

so, can anyone think of a real-world example of why someone would use this?

[toicontien]

An FAQ page would be a good example. Having sound come from one side, then another could be a great audible way of denoting two different speakers (people, not devices). The FAQ question could be read from the left speaker and the answer could be read from the right speaker.

You could also think about dialogue in a story too. If you have two people talking in a story, you could set one person's <QUOTE>'s to come from one speaker, and another persion's <QUOTE>'s to come from another, as a way to easily keep track of which person is saying what. I think this CSS property was intended to help screen readers to convey complex conversations.

[dtm32236]

okay - that makes sense...

has anyone in the world ever used it?

[toicontien]

I'm gonna go with "no." I'm not sure screen readers even implement web standards correctly, but less the web browsers they will be reading from.