Nov 5, 2010
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Dotted Eighth

You’re on the Flash diet, aren’t you? All the cool kids are doing it.

It turns out that audio posts on the Tumblr Dashboard don’t work if you don’t have Flash installed, so I wrote a Safari extension called Dotted Eighth that makes the Tumblr Dashboard use HTML5 players for audio posts. Now you can listen to audio posts sans Flash. Boo-yah1.

Here’s what it looks like:

To download Dotted Eighth, click this link. Once it’s downloaded, double-click to install.

Tell your friends.

Nota bene: this extension only puts HTML5 audio players on the Tumblr Dashboard. If you’re looking at someone’s Tumblr site, it won’t work. That might be my next challenge.

(Also, let me know if the extension doesn’t work. I think I’ve set up updating correctly, but this is my first Safari extension rodeo.)

(Also also, thanks to Ryan for motivation.)

1By default, the Safari <audio> element says “Loading…” — it’s lying. It won’t start downloading the audio file until you click the Play button. I know it’s confusing, but it was either that or have every audio file on the Dashboard download at once. So, deal.

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