Still waiting for HTML 5 audio to happen
Posted on:September 20 2012
Take a look at this table, it shows which audio format can be played back by which browser, using the HTML 5 audio tag:
Source: wikipedia.
You notice, there is not one single vertical row where everything is green. And this is 2012. As long it stays like this, HTML 5 audio will not be used by many people seriously. Meaning that you cannot easily write games and multimedia apps using HTML 5 audio.
Come on, browser developers! Give us just one single, one tiny audio codec which works everywhere. How difficult can that be? I'd even be happy even if it would be Ogg! Just put that library in there. It's free. No patents. Integrating that library takes about half an hour for a decent C++ programmer. Really. It would be such a big step forward.
| Browser | Operating system | Formats supported by different web browsers | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Ogg Vorbis | WAV PCM | MP3 | AAC | WebM Vorbis | Ogg Opus | ||
Google Chrome | All supported | 9.0 | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | Currently in Dev and canary channels |
Internet Explorer | Windows | Depends | No | 9.0 | 9.0 | No | No |
Mozilla Firefox ( Gecko ) | All supported | 3.5 (1.9.1) | 3.5 (1.9.1) | No | No | 4.0 (2.0) | 15.0 (15.0) |
Opera | All supported | 10.50 | No | Depends | Depends | 10.60 | In development |
Safari | OS X | must be installed separately | 3.1 | 3.1 | 3.1 | must be installed separately | No |
Source: wikipedia.
You notice, there is not one single vertical row where everything is green. And this is 2012. As long it stays like this, HTML 5 audio will not be used by many people seriously. Meaning that you cannot easily write games and multimedia apps using HTML 5 audio.
Come on, browser developers! Give us just one single, one tiny audio codec which works everywhere. How difficult can that be? I'd even be happy even if it would be Ogg! Just put that library in there. It's free. No patents. Integrating that library takes about half an hour for a decent C++ programmer. Really. It would be such a big step forward.
Comments:
It's frustrating. In our game, we have to fall back to flash for playing audio. Can't wait when we can stop doing this.
klaus
Quote2012-09-20 11:11:00
First they all went for CSS3 and basic HTML5 and then they... oh wait, is that canvas? WebGL? Cool! Let's do that, all the others are doing it right now. What? More CSS3? Let's go for it.
It all seems a little chaotic. Audio can wait, because... who wants to hear something in his browser?
Audio (mainly in browsers) seems to has alway been the stepchild no one really cared for. If it wasn't for Flash, the Internet would probably still be silent today *sigh*
It all seems a little chaotic. Audio can wait, because... who wants to hear something in his browser?
Audio (mainly in browsers) seems to has alway been the stepchild no one really cared for. If it wasn't for Flash, the Internet would probably still be silent today *sigh*
KIENI
Quote2012-09-20 12:07:00
The funny thing is the 'HTML5' solution for audio problem is to have Flash as a fallback: http://html5please.com/#audio
abiyasa
Quote2012-09-20 17:51:00
Yeah, seriously, I get annoyed at this too. Odd how they ALL support audio and this issue isn't gone yet. I guess the fallback option would be to have two different audio formats available, but who wants duplicates of everything?
Nic
Quote2012-09-25 07:58:00
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