On Fri, Sep 13, 2013 at 1:50 PM, Jer Noble <jer.noble@apple.com> wrote:
> Of course, HTMLMediaElements must pause when they are removed from the
> DOM. So in the general case, disconnecting a playing media element and
> throwing away all references to it will allow it to be GCd.
>
But you can call play() on a media element after removing it from the DOM.
If we were to follow the media element model in Web Audio, we would
introduce per-node pause() and resume() APIs and specify that when you
disconnect the last output of a node, there is an implicit pause() call.
Rob
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