HTML WG thread on "background" audio in browser

You may have seen this thread already - it's copied on both the HTML WG list and the WHAT-WG: a discussion on how/whether to allow tabs in the background to play audio.

I initially thought such things were at a completely different level than what we are doing with web audio, but talks of using "attributes for media elements" rings an alarm bell as it would not include anything generated by/with the web audio API.

Thread here:
http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-html/2013Apr/thread.html#msg49

Proposal here:
https://wiki.mozilla.org/WebAPI/AudioChannels

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Olivier


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Received on Wednesday, 10 April 2013 12:26:08 UTC