This issue is now OPEN. Per comments in https://www.w3.org/2011/audio/track/issues/20, suggestions of better wording are welcome.
Olivier
On 15 May 2012, at 13:46, Audio Working Group Issue Tracker wrote:
> Audio-ISSUE-20 (currentTime): Relationship to currentTime [Web Audio API]
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> http://www.w3.org/2011/audio/track/issues/20
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> Raised by: Marcus Geelnard
> On product: Web Audio API
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> The phrases "relative to the AudioContext .currentTime", "relative to the currentTime attribute of the AudioContext" and "in relation to the context's currentTime attribute" are almost certainly wrong.
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> It must be a time on the same timeline as AudioContext. Also, the phrasing should be consistent.