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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. Re:Dear Internet: Sorry. by Darkness404 · · Score: 4, Insightful

    You mean that you expect this to actually be used?

    IE doesn't even have support for canvas, Firefox has had it from 3.0 at least, and I think even 2.0 had some support.

    If IE still has more than 30% worldwide marketshare, and doesn't have basic requirements for this, its not going to be used. Period.

    Canvas has been around for ages and is there even a single practical example on a site people use daily? Yeah, there are about a million tech demos but very little actual use because IE doesn't support it.

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