Re: Question about how to help resolve inconsistencies in Web Audio implementations between browsers

In addition, if you have some small examples, feel free to file issues at
crbug.com/new. I'll look at them and file spec/browser issues as needed.
(Be sure to set the component to Blink->WebAudio if you can.)

On Thu, Mar 21, 2019, 8:57 AM Hongchan Choi <hongchan@google.com> wrote:

> In order to have more visibility on it, I created a tracking issue for
> this:
> https://github.com/WebAudio/web-audio-api/issues/1842
>
> John, thanks for your feedback and please feel free to follow up on the
> link above. Your report will greatly help us assess the problem quickly.
>
> Best,
> Hongchan
>
>
> On Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 2:56 AM Paul Adenot <padenot@mozilla.com> wrote:
>
>> John,
>>
>> If you could write a short document outlining the various problems you're
>> seeing, one of us could quickly assess the situation, and determine whether
>> a particular implementation is not respecting the spec (and in fact, no
>> implementation fully implement every little detail of the spec right now),
>> or if the spec is simply unclear about something. It could be (and has
>> historically been) both reasons, so without looking into the particular
>> problem, it's hard to tell. Out of this, we'll probably end up writing Web
>> Platform Tests (which are tests being run on all implementations), to make
>> it easy to determine which implementation is (are) correct and which is
>> (are) wrong.
>>
>> Then, we'll go and fix either the spec, the implementations, or both,
>> after having filed issues in the relevant issue trackers.
>>
>> Thanks for contacting us, hopefully we can sort this out and come out of
>> this with a better spec and better implementations.
>> Paul.
>>
>> On Wed, Mar 20, 2019 at 10:10 PM John Peter Blanco <
>> John.Blanco@colorado.edu> wrote:
>>
>>> Greetings,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I work for an organization that develops interactive educational
>>> web-based simulations (see https://phet.colorado.edu for more info).
>>> We are currently adding sound to many of our simulations, and I’m running
>>> into issues due to inconsistencies in the implementation of Web Audio
>>> across the leading browsers.  I already reported one bug to Mozilla, which
>>> they have agreed to resolve, but some of the other problems that I’m
>>> finding are a little less clear as to which browser is incorrect, or if the
>>> spec is just vague on some points.  I was wondering if there was someone
>>> there that I could work with to help sort some of this out.  I’m happy to
>>> provide code that demonstrates the differences in order to minimize the
>>> level of effort on your end, and I’m also happy to report the issues to
>>> Chrome/Mozilla/Apple/Microsoft once I’m clear on which browsers are in
>>> violation of the spec.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks and Best Regards,
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> John Blanco
>>>
>>> PhET Interactive Simulations
>>>
>>> University of Colorado, Boulder
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>