On Mon, Jun 17, 2013 at 11:14 PM, Robert O'Callahan <robert@ocallahan.org>wrote:
> Over the years I've become less patient with holding out to fix the Web
> while other vendors profit from forging ahead. In many cases, holding out
> didn't make much difference in the end.
>
Hmm. An impressively cynical statement, and I am a master cynic.
Look, I'm suggesting that we work together to correct this "profit" (i.e.,
remove it from our implementation, and work together on evangelism); that's
not been the modus operandi for many of the cases you're implicitly
referring to above, I think.
> A few bugs have been filed, but we haven't solicited testing of our
> implementation yet.
>
Indeed. IIUC, it's only on nightlies thus far, and under a flag. I still
tell people about the great work you guys are getting done every time I
talk about Web Audio, because I think cross-browser compatibility is the
best thing to drive web audio forward right now.
> Just for kicks I Googled for "Web Audio demo", visited the first page, and
> picked one random demo link:
> http://webaudiodemos.appspot.com/midi-synth/index.html
> function initAudio() {
> try {
> audioContext = new webkitAudioContext();
> }
> catch(e) {
> alert('Web Audio API is not supported in this browser');
> }
> Honestly, the very first thing I tried. Not encouraging.
>
Yes. I am a horrible coder, and I have a lot of side projects. But maybe
point at something not done by me, and not written a year ago, before you
started your implementation. :) (and last I checked, oscillators still
weren't there in firefox - please tell me I'm mistaken? - which kills the
synth completely anyway.) Ehsan's submitted a PR or two that I've merged
in those demos, and I would nothing more to get them all working. Being in
the middle of a major relocation (I'm literally writing this from a hotel
room mid-way between Seattle and Mountain View) has been a bit distracting.
I WILL get all my samples converted, and all the HTML5Rocks pages fixed,
and yes, my goal is to get all that done well before you intend to ship.
-Chris
Received on Thursday, 20 June 2013 15:05:13 UTC