Chris, IIRC - <bgsound> just forks off to Media Player, as *should* <object> and <audio>. I'm not totally sure what will happen in Metro browsing, where they shut down a lot of extensibility points. As far as I know there is no MIDI support via Metro (at this time anyway). (Score -1 for Microsoft: they're now back to zero <g>). That's what I meant about other browsers - all the other major browsers ship on OSX (and many on Linux, etc), where they couldn't rely on an SMF/GM component being available. Right... the GM component (synth) is available, just not the SMF component (file player). (Just want to be clear about that.) So if I was in a problem-solving mode, I'd be looking for some way to get the SMF file-player code into browsers, if not into OSX and Linux distributions themselves. Android does ship with SMF playback, and the Sonivox synthesizer; however, they don't currently have it exposed with any MIDI APIs, only file-playback. http://code.google.com/p/android/issues/detail?id=8201. Right, Web MIDI APIs are still needed on all platforms. I'm just pointing out where some OS already have some MIDI functionality built-in, and suggesting the Web API be able to take advantage of those cases. - TW
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