Re: Aiding early implementations of the web audio API

On Wed, May 23, 2012 at 11:17 AM, Marcus Geelnard <mage@opera.com> wrote:

> Den 2012-05-23 01:46:06 skrev Chris Wilson <cwilso@google.com>:
>
>
>  One question - "exposing the behaviour of built-in AudioNodes in a manner
>> that authors of JavaScriptAudioNodes can harness" sounds like subclassing
>> those nodes to me, which isn't the same thing as providing only
>> lower-level libraries (like FFT) and asking developers to do the hook-up
>> in JS nodes. What's the desire here?
>>
>
> I think the cleanest and most useful approach would be to provide
> functions/classes independent of the Audio API, so that you can use it in
> any way you want, including applications other than audio. For instance,
> compare this to how typed arrays originally emerged from WebGL (it was a
> requirement for making WebGL work), but has found wide-spread use in many
> other applications too.
>
> /Marcus
>

My thoughts exactly.