On Sep 13, 2013, at 4:16 PM, Robert O'Callahan <robert@ocallahan.org> wrote: > 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. I’d actually be fine with that. One further hypothetical: should “pause” and “play” traverse down the graph? I.e., if you “pause” a ConvolutionNode, would the AudioBufferSourceNode feeding it pause as well. -Jer
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