[whatwg] Codecs for <audio> and <video>

Oliver Hunt oliver at apple.com
Mon Jul 6 18:57:44 PDT 2009


On Jul 6, 2009, at 6:08 PM, Ian Hickson wrote:

> On Mon, 6 Jul 2009, Charles Pritchard wrote:
>>>
>>> This is on the list of things to consider in a future version. At  
>>> this
>>> point I don't really want to add new features yet because otherwise
>>> we'll never get the browser vendors caught up to implementing the  
>>> same
>>> spec. :-)
>>
>> Consider a programmable <audio> element as a priority.
>
> Could you elaborate on what your use cases are? Is it just the  
> ability to
> manually decode audio tracks?

I actually have thought about this.  Having an ability to post- 
process, mix, or generate audio content manually is useful for certain  
classes of games and applications.

--Oliver
  



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