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>If that breaks web games -- tough luck. It's worse than that, it breaks the standard. Audio API can no longer be used reliably if a major portion of the audi

by dstein 16y ago

>If that breaks web games -- tough luck. It's worse than that, it breaks the standard. Audio API can no longer be used reliably if a major portion of the audience can't utilize it. Remember when days when one major heavyweight would refuse to follow standardized web protocols? You know, like how SVG was standardized in 2001 and 10 years later can still not be used reliably. Stuff like that needs to stop.

LaGrange 16y ago
Well, if the standard allows autoplay without user consent then it's broken. Just because a standard is doesn't mean everyone should follow it. It should be followed when it's a good standard, and in this case it's arguable.
- smackfu 16y ago
  So IE can not follow the parts of the standards they don't like, and that's cool with you now? It's a pretty silly position to take.
- jdc 16y ago
  I imagine a user consent message in the form of Firefox's XPI "Allow/Deny" bar would work well for this.
yuhong 16y ago
>You know, like how SVG was standardized in 2001 and 10 years later can still not be used reliably. And XHTML too.