Widgets in iBookAuthor

Hello,
I have developed a small HTML Widget (using Dashcode 3) and the dashcode widget in a standalone
work properly. However when i add that in the ibooksAuthor, it does not seem to wrok. Any idea
what am i doing wrong here?
The WIdget is a smiple Audio sample file. I have a m4a file (AAC is supported per Apple's ibookAuthor's page)
which gets played when a button is pressed. The code does not work in ibooksAuthor however the widget
works perfectly fine as a standalone on Mac. Could you please help me here?
Thanks,
Jayasimha

Yeah, I could not get it to work either from a simple HTML widget (see below). Says "cannot play audio file".
Can anyone confirm if this is possible? If so can you post a snippet and working audio file so I can try it out.
-J
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" style="width: 100%; height: 100%; border: 0px; margin: 0px;">
<head>
</head>
<body>
    <audio controls="controls" >
         <source src="sound.m4a" />
    </audio>
</body>
</html>

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