Re: "Version 1" of the Web Audio spec

Happy New Year to you too, Chris!

In principle this seems like a very useful idea. Since I'm more a representative consumer of the specification and not so much an implementor, I'm naturally asking myself how to support the idea of a version 1 without hurting current development efforts in the field.

If we were to pragmatically define "version 1" as the current feature set of the Webkit implementation (just to be concrete, Chrome 23/Safari 6) I would have no trouble supporting that. It would mean that developers could get going on projects and products, confident that implementations to follow would not surprise them by omitting features they had relied on.

I certainly see the value of a well defined v1 to implementors since it makes the goalposts very clear for getting Web Audio out there. And developers would like to see more implementations quickly and to have the initial crop of them be consistent.

…Joe

On Jan 7, 2013, at 11:58 AM, Chris Lowis <chris.lowis@bbc.co.uk> wrote:

> 
> Happy New Year!
> 
> At a recent event in London I had a chat with Chris Rogers about the
> idea of defining a "version 1" of the specification. This would be a
> subset of the current specification with the following aims and
> advantages:
> 
> - reduce and help prioritise the current backlog of specification bugs
> - help with the implementation of a fixed, rather than moving
>  target
> - allow us to experiment with and discuss features for future versions
>  without distracting from the standardisation effort
> - focus the testing effort on "version 1"
> - focus the documentation effort on "version 1"
> 
> We thought of a couple of ways this could be achieved. Either by
> defining a subset of the current spec's functionality (Chris mentioned
> he could suggest such a subset to get the ball rolling), or by taking a
> more granular approach and categorising the current functionality into
> order of importance.
> 
> This is just an idea at this stage, and I'd really appreciate any
> thoughts from the group - is this a good idea, and if so how could we go
> about it?
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> Chris
> 
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