Audio Articles
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People of HTML5 – Remy Sharp
HTML5 needs spokespeople to work. There are a lot of people out there who took on this role, and here at Mozilla we thought it is a good idea to introduce some of them to you with a series of interviews and short videos. The format is simple – we send the experts 10 questions […]
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HTML5 Guitar Tab Player with the Firefox 4 Audio Data API
Greg Jopa, an Illinois State University grad student studying web development, built a web-based guitar tab player using Firefox’s Audio Data API and Vexflow (HTML5 music notation rendering API). Here is some details from Greg. You can also read more about this experiment on his blog. I created a mashup using the Firefox 4 Audio […]
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Firefox 4 Beta: Latest Update is Here, with WebGL
The new Firefox 4 Beta is here, and comes with WebGL activated by default. You can download this new beta here: http://firefox.com/beta. Flight of the Navigator is a WebGL + Audio API demo developed by a team of Mozilla volunteers. You can see the demo online here (you need a WebGL compatible browser). More information […]
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Spirit of Indiana (Jones) – syncing HTML5 Video with Maps
I’ve always been a big fan of the travel/flight sequences in the Indiana Jones movies and judging by the amount of copy attempts on YouTube I am not alone in this. As I don’t own any video editing software I thought it should be possible to create the same effect with web technologies and Google […]
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audio data API – audio generation demo
At BarCamp Bankgkok 4, 16 year-old programmer, Thai Pangsakulyanont, did an awesome presentation (that I now know he hacked together in 2 hours before the presentation) on the Audio Data API in Firefox 4: audio generation demo. Simply, the demo uses the mouse button for a crash cymbal, mouse actions as an arpeggiator, and the […]
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HTML5 Video preload attribute supported in Firefox 4, autobuffer attribute removed
This is a re-post from Chris Pearce’s blog. To comply with the HTML5 specification, we replaced the autobuffer attribute with the tri-state preload attribute. We encourage you to update your code. See the documention on MDC. Late last week I landed support on Firefox trunk for the HTML5 video ‘preload’ attribute. This replaces the ‘autobuffer’ […]
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HTML5 video 'buffered' property available in Firefox 4
Support for the HTML5 video 'buffered' property has landed in Firefox, we can now accurately determine which time-segments of a video we can play and seek into without needing to pause playback to download more data.
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Fast JavaScript and Audio: Speech Synthesis in Your Browser
If you haven’t been keeping track of David Humphrey’s work to bring audio manipulation to Firefox, you’re missing out. He’s made an update post with a huge number of demos, requiring some of the most recent advances in JavaScript found in Firefox – binary arrays, super-fast tracing-based FFT analysis, etc. This was my favorite bit […]
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Beyond HTML5: experiments with interactive audio
This is a re-post of an important post from David Humphrey who has been doing a lot of experiments on top of Mozilla’s extensible platform and doing experiments with multi-touch, sound, video, WebGL and all sorts of other goodies. It’s worth going through all of the demos below. You’ll find some stuff that will amaze […]
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9elements – HTML5 Canvas Experiment
The developers over at 9elements have done a mesmerizing experiment with Canvas and the audio support in HTML5. HTML5 Canvas and Audio Experiment Please comment on their cool experiment at their blog: HTML5 Canvas Experiment.