That's a little unfair. The spec was presented when it was already implemented in the browser by the spec authors. That's why they are so far ahead of the curv

That's a little unfair. The spec was presented when it was already implemented in the browser by the spec authors. That's why they are so far ahead of the curve. Mozilla had a spec and implementation of another approach that predates the Web Audio API. Once the working group settled on what spec to go for then implementation started.