- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Sat, 11 Jun 2011 01:41:41 +0000 (UTC)
- To: public-audio@w3.org
(Sorry for breaking threading, I wasn't on the list until now.) Robert O'Callahan <robert@ocallahan.org> wrote: > On Sat, Jun 11, 2011 at 8:47 AM, Chris Rogers <crogers@google.com> > wrote: > > > > As for the integration with the Stream proposal, I've had discussions > > with Ian Hickson and we concluded that it would be best to keep the > > two APIs separate and provide a way to gain access to a Stream via > > AudioNode. > > I discussed this with Ian too, and he did not suggest that keeping the > APIs separate would be best for Web authors. I think we'd better let him > speak for himself. As far as my opinions about what is the best API go, I'd need to see concrete proposals to form an opinion. I don't know enough about audio API requirements to make my own proposal. One major difference between AudioNode and Stream is that Stream can have multiple audio and video tracks, each with their own set of audio channels, whereas AudioNode is specifically about one set of audio channels. As I understand it, this distinction is quite important. At the end of the day, what matters is what gets implemented. If only one vendor likes a particular API, that API isn't going anywhere useful. One last thing: I'm not convinced that audio APIs are really the next most important thing to work on on the Web platform. There are tons of new APIs already being proposed; so much so that implementation quality is suffering (the biggest indicator of that being the continued lack of comprehensive test suites for large parts of the platform, including such fundamentals as HTML). Obviously this mailing list isn't where I'm going to garner many friends for saying this, but maybe the best Audio API for the Web platform for the near future is no API at all. The last time we moved this fast on the Web platform was in the late 90s, and the net result was ten years of fixing bugs because we'd been too rushed. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'
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