I haven't heard of the Web Audio API, so forgive me if this sounds ignorant, but isn't this the kind of thing that should piss off anyone who's interested in co

I haven't heard of the Web Audio API, so forgive me if this sounds ignorant, but isn't this the kind of thing that should piss off anyone who's interested in consistent web-standards across all browsers? Aren't browser specific API's the kind of thing that led to IE becoming such a hated piece of software?