Re: Question about how to help resolve inconsistencies in Web Audio implementations between browsers

In order to have more visibility on it, I created a tracking issue for this:
https://github.com/WebAudio/web-audio-api/issues/1842

John, thanks for your feedback and please feel free to follow up on the
link above. Your report will greatly help us assess the problem quickly.

Best,
Hongchan


On Thu, Mar 21, 2019 at 2:56 AM Paul Adenot <padenot@mozilla.com> wrote:

> John,
>
> If you could write a short document outlining the various problems you're
> seeing, one of us could quickly assess the situation, and determine whether
> a particular implementation is not respecting the spec (and in fact, no
> implementation fully implement every little detail of the spec right now),
> or if the spec is simply unclear about something. It could be (and has
> historically been) both reasons, so without looking into the particular
> problem, it's hard to tell. Out of this, we'll probably end up writing Web
> Platform Tests (which are tests being run on all implementations), to make
> it easy to determine which implementation is (are) correct and which is
> (are) wrong.
>
> Then, we'll go and fix either the spec, the implementations, or both,
> after having filed issues in the relevant issue trackers.
>
> Thanks for contacting us, hopefully we can sort this out and come out of
> this with a better spec and better implementations.
> Paul.
>
> On Wed, Mar 20, 2019 at 10:10 PM John Peter Blanco <
> John.Blanco@colorado.edu> wrote:
>
>> Greetings,
>>
>>
>>
>> I work for an organization that develops interactive educational
>> web-based simulations (see https://phet.colorado.edu for more info).  We
>> are currently adding sound to many of our simulations, and I’m running into
>> issues due to inconsistencies in the implementation of Web Audio across the
>> leading browsers.  I already reported one bug to Mozilla, which they have
>> agreed to resolve, but some of the other problems that I’m finding are a
>> little less clear as to which browser is incorrect, or if the spec is just
>> vague on some points.  I was wondering if there was someone there that I
>> could work with to help sort some of this out.  I’m happy to provide code
>> that demonstrates the differences in order to minimize the level of effort
>> on your end, and I’m also happy to report the issues to
>> Chrome/Mozilla/Apple/Microsoft once I’m clear on which browsers are in
>> violation of the spec.
>>
>>
>>
>> Thanks and Best Regards,
>>
>>
>>
>> John Blanco
>>
>> PhET Interactive Simulations
>>
>> University of Colorado, Boulder
>>
>>
>>
>