Re: Comments on the Web Audio API proposal

> This idea has been brought up by quite a few people I have talked to at
> Web Audio workshops. The general consensus from JavaScript developers,
> seems to be that this is a good idea to have some core functions added
> to the JavaScript Math object.
 >>
>> Has the group ever considered creating a maths JavaScript library for
>> which hardware support can be implemented and making that generally
>> available to the Web browser rather than creating audio-specific
>> filters? It was a question I was asked recently when discussing the

Al, it seems to me that Silvia is saying something slightly different, 
namely, creating a JS lib vs. adding things to Math directly.  Once 
created, such a lib could be optimized heavily in the JS 
implementations, and/or merged into Math or wherever.

I think this sort of approach is ideal, notwithstanding Chris' reply 
that it misses cases where state matters--I'd argue that there are still 
many cases where having access to such a lib would be helpful.  I know 
from experience that getting JS like this heavily optimized can be done, 
and that these devs are eager for such real-world examples.

I also think that there will be cross over with other non-audio domains, 
and leveraging this work across them makes the most sense to me.

Dave

Received on Monday, 18 October 2010 20:47:06 UTC