Game Development Reference
In-Depth Information
The Web Audio API is one of the most robust solutions to have emerged and is poised to potentially
become the dominant audio solution. The Web Audio API, when supported in a browser, allows the
kind of functionality only dreamed about for current web audio. The Web Audio API supports extensive
sample playback, including things like live i ltering, reverb, binaural panning, and much, much more.
Currently Web Audio API is supported in versions of Google's Chrome, Apple's Safari, and recently
Mozilla's Firefox joined the fray, meaning that support of Web Audio is now around 65% of all browsers
on desktop and mobile devices. Internet Explorer is still lagging far behind and the status of IE 11 is
unknown at this time.
For a demonstration of the awesomeness of HTML5 audio using the Web Audio API, check out the
following links (all of these require the Chrome browser to run):
Jam with Chrome: A Google Chrome Experiment
www.jamwithchrome.com
Pedalboard.js: Guitar Pedals in the Web Browser
http://dashersw.github.com/pedalboard.js/demo/
Flash Is Dead—Long Live Flash!
This revolutionary platform literally once ruled the roost of the casual
games market, not to mention sites like YouTube, and millions of rich
media content-oriented websites. Interestingly, it was deployment
on mobile devices that proved to be Flash's Achilles heel. Although
hardware like the Blackberry and Nokia phones, among many others,
