Re: Call for Consensus: retire current ScriptProcessorNode design & AudioWorker proposal

I think there was some rough consensus on the call last week to make a
clean break.


On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 1:59 PM, Andrew Vermie <andrew.vermie@gmail.com>
wrote:

> What are the advantages of introducing the new spec under the old API
> names (createScriptProcessor + ScriptProcessorNode), rather than creating a
> new API for this proposal and deprecating the old API?
>
> As a developer working on a project with Web Audio API, I think it would
> be less disruptive to have a clean break with the old API.  Thoughts?
>
> On Mon, Aug 11, 2014 at 2:40 PM, Chris Wilson <cwilso@google.com> wrote:
>
>> That is precisely why I highlighted this risk.
>>
>> ScriptProcessors are certainly used today.  I don't think it's horrific
>> to consider switching it over (and then off), but I do think it will take a
>> concerted, cooperative effort to do so.  I think at the very least Mozilla
>> and Chrome (and ideally Safari, too) would need to support the new version
>> in roughly the same timeframe, would need to throw a "deprecation warning",
>> and would need to have a concerted plan to shut off the old version in
>> roughly the same timeframe, too.  Oh, and make sure IE doesn't support the
>> old one at all.  :)
>>
>> We are getting a fair bit of heat for turning off old bits in Chrome, so
>> believe me, I'm not taking this lightly.  I just think the previous
>> incarnation is very bad.
>>
>>
>> On Fri, Aug 8, 2014 at 7:30 PM, Robert O'Callahan <robert@ocallahan.org>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> How can we remove the current ScriptProcessorNode from the spec? My
>>> understanding is that quite a few sites and applications depend on it.
>>>
>>> Rob
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