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As far as O know, web pages play mp3 sounds by embedding invisible Flash players. Since Flash is not available on mobile webkit (iphone/ipad), how is it possible to play mp3 on this platform?

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HTML5 supports these 2 tags (audio / video) which Safari supports:

In your case, you can use the audio tag.

<audio src="horse.ogg" controls="controls>
  your browser doesn't support HTML5 audio
</audio>

The only catch is getting the right format for your media. :-)

Safari supports MP3 for audio, and MPEG 4 for video... Firefox supports OGG for audio/video, (I believe Opera does too), and chrome supports both.

scunliffe