884726 - (webaudio) Support webkit prefix and old names to work with existing web apps.

Status: RESOLVED WONTFIX

(Core :: Web Audio, defect)

Description

[JW Wang [:jwwang] [:jw_wang]]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:20.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/20.0 (Beta/Release)
Build ID: 20130329030832

Steps to reproduce:

Run apps on this demo page:
http://chromium.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/samples/audio/samples.html


Actual results:

Web audio doesn't work on most of the pages.


Expected results:

Some pages use webkitAudioContext instead of AudioContext. Should we add support of the webkit prefix such that it is easier to test our browser with existing web audio apps?

Should we also support old name (https://dvcs.w3.org/hg/audio/raw-file/tip/webaudio/specification.html#OldNames) as well?

Comment 1

[Paul Adenot (:padenot)]

There is a thread at the moment on the mailing list [1], where we are discussing this issue.

We also have a call audio-wg call tomorrow, and this problem is on the agenda.

We already support the old names.

[1]: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-audio/2013AprJun/0489.html

Comment 2

[(no longer active)]

What Paul said.  FWIW I'm very opposed to the idea of supporting webkitAudioContext for now.

Comment 3

[(no longer active)]

WONTFIXing for now.