On: For developers, Safari is crap and outdated

[jahewson]

As a user of Web Audio I can tell you that it’s broken in the latest Safari. As in, we cannot play a simple sound. Our users are not happy about it.

[masswerk → jahewson]

It requires a user initiated event to unmute the AudioContext first.

(This is a fallout of the constant struggle between advertising and browsers, compare the restrictions for auto-play videos. Regarding the latter, if you're not white-listed by Google, you're out of luck on Chrome and your entire site is broken. Safari's restrictions on audible sound are actually transparent in comparison.)

[mikestew → jahewson]

It's not broken. Maybe your code is broken, I dunno, as I don't have it in front of me. But Web Audio most certainly works "in the latest Safari".

[marcellus23 → jahewson]

I'm running latest Safari and I can definitely play sounds on websites. Is Safari broken, or just your code?