How to incorporate sound into a Javascript-based website without resorting to Flash programming?

Question

Everything about this website affirms my decision to develop interactive websites with javascript and not flash. But one question though, how they do they incoporate sound effect into it? I check the page source and it's not HTML5.

Source: nissanusa

Answer 1

It actually uses SoundManager

SoundManager 2 makes it easy to play sounds using Javascript. By wrapping and extending the Flash sound API, SoundManager 2 brings solid audio functionality to Javascript. How it works

update, just incase you were wondernig: the other cool jslibraries the website makes use of include,

1. Raphaël—JavaScript Library for vector graphics and animations.
2. cufon for fast text replacement with canvas and VML - no Flash or images required

Answer 2

The Sound Manager 2 class still extends over the flash API, It is a good example of using Flash only for handling the backend, the frontend doing the actual work with the sounds.

Albeit you're going on a good path to not develop interactive sites in Flash as you can, It's a hinderance.