User:Duncharris/playbox

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Please DO NOT edit this page; discuss on the talk page first. Thanks. Dunc|☺ 23:29, 1 October 2005 (UTC)

Info	Play	help
This is my idea for how a play box should work and what it should look like.

This one is similar but without the text. Which is better?

There is a current problem with playing sounds. I have therefore devised a playbox which is here on the right. If it looks like an image box, that's because basically it is.

There are three columns each with a link and a button (which we'll have to get these made to look pretty but these placeholders are okay for the moment):

1. Indicates whether it is a sound file or a video file, e.g. be a copy of http://en.wikipedia.org/skins-1.5/common/images/icons/fileicon-ogg.png for ogg file. Clicking the link or icon takes you through to the image description page and more data about the file.
2. Clicking on the second play icon plays/downloads the file.
3. For help because these files are quite complicated.

The caption goes beneath the box, as with pictures.

There are also a few formatting issues that needs to be sorted out as all of it ought to be blue and there are white lines where the table is. I'm also not sure that the text and the icons are required, maybe just the icons with alt text would suffice.

Still, neat, eh?

[edit] temporary fix

template:soundbox, {{soundbox|filename|right}} should produce something similar.