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Re:Google: Les Pauls 96th birthday by catshirt on Thursday June 09, 2011 @12:35AM (#2635990)
from a superficial look, it seems like the sound is actually being played through flash. it looks like the doodle is canvas though, which suggests the interface is in javascript.

too bad they didn't synthesize the sound with javascript as well. their web audio api is great. firefox has a (somewhat) equivalent api. :)

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Re:Google: Les Pauls 96th birthday by smackfu on Thursday June 09, 2011 @09:26AM (#2637039)
It really doesn't seem like sound playback is there yet, except in Flash.
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Re:Google: Les Pauls 96th birthday by catshirt on Thursday June 09, 2011 @11:30AM (#2637456)
look more into the apis i referenced. not only is javascript playback there, but even the synthesis is possible through javascript.
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Re:Google: Les Pauls 96th birthday by delinquentme on Thursday June 09, 2011 @01:11AM (#2636079)
<iframe name="wgjf" style="display:none" src="/blank.html" onload="google.j.l()" onerror="google.j.e()"></iframe>

it doesn't look very "flash"

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Re:Google: Les Pauls 96th birthday by damncabbage on Thursday June 09, 2011 @02:06AM (#2636199)
It creates a flash object on the fly with javascript:

  <object id="guitar11-sound-player" width="0" height="0"
   type="application/x-shockwave-flash" 
   codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave
   /cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,0,0" 
   classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000">
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