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Thing is, sound support (WebAudio or HTML5 <audio> alone) is not a priority for most browsers, Firefox included. I like that Google is so aggressive - maybe some of the other browser vendors will begin to care.

I ranted about the <audio> element quite a while ago[1] and many points are still valid. Also, <audio> can't be used for "dynamic" sound at all. Chrome's/Safari's WebAudio is the way to and Mozilla agrees, but hasn't done anything implementation wise.

[1] http://www.phoboslab.org/log/2011/03/the-state-of-html5-audi...

Thing is, the .com.au version worked fine in Safari this morning, but the .co.uk version tells me I need a more modern browser this afternoon.

So it's not just being limited to browsers that are technically capable of running it.

Which is fine of course. But if you already test features a la modernizr then use that power for good and tell me that my browser (which is very modern, thank you very much) lacks support for X, maybe 'audio'.

It's the words I'm annoyed by, not the fact that it doesn't work. Chrome is crap in my world (entirely subjective opinion) and branding it as the only 'modern' piece of kit is.. just the same.

Does Safari have a WebAudio implementation? I'd understood that it's Chrome only.

And hasn't Mozilla had its own WebAudio implementation since FF4?

    https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Introducing_the_Audio_API_Extension

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