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05-16-2009, 10:20 PM
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I don't know why you needed to negrep my last post. I was just trying to give you honest advice; autoplaying is a bad idea for the following reasons:
  • People don't expect it when it blasts out of their speakers.
  • It increases the time and bandwidth needed to download the page.
  • If people don't share your tastes in music, it can really turn them off your page.
  • It doesn't add anything to the user experience in accessing your website.
  • Perhaps I'm blind, but I can't see any way to turn it off; thus you're forcing people to actually turn off their computer speakers. The average person would find it easier to close the page than manually turn off their speakers.
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