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Breakthroughs In HTML Audio Via Manipulation With JavaScript

Posted by timothy on from the infinite-malleability dept.

jamienk writes "Imagine if you could grab and manipulate audio with JavaScript just like you can images with Canvas. Firefox experimental builds let you do just that: crazy audio visualizations, a graphic equalizer, even text-to-speech, all in JavaScript! Work in progress; you need a special build of Firefox (videos available), being worked on via W3C."

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  1. Dear Internet: Sorry. by B5_geek · · Score: 3, Funny

    All I can think of is <BLINK> </BLINK> turned into audio!

    Of course this has good uses (blind users with scripts available), but I can see how this will end badly for the rest of us.

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    "The price good men pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men." ~Plato (427-347 BC)
  2. Re:Dear Internet: Sorry. by Yvan256 · · Score: 5, Funny

    You mean annoying like people who put their comments between <code> tags?

  3. Re:Dear Internet: Sorry. by K.+S.+Kyosuke · · Score: 5, Funny

    Well, he's a disciplined programmer, he puts comments in his code.

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    Ezekiel 23:20
  4. Re:Dear Internet: Sorry. by Monkeedude1212 · · Score: 1, Funny

    You know, there are already PLENTY of applications out there that blind users can use to turn text on screen to speech? And that a lot of people prefer to disable javascript from running?

    Last thing we need is an "on Hover" Javascript ad, you mouse over, and audio gets maximized "FIND YOUR MATCH @ ADULTFINDER.COM!"