Breakthroughs In HTML Audio Via Manipulation With JavaScript 141
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jamienk writes "Imagine if you could grab and manipulate audio with JavaScript just like you can images with Canvas. Firefox experimental builds let you do just that: crazy audio visualizations, a graphic equalizer, even text-to-speech, all in JavaScript! Work in progress; you need a special build of Firefox (videos available), being worked on via W3C."
Dear Internet: Sorry. (Score:4, Funny)
Of course this has good uses (blind users with scripts available), but I can see how this will end badly for the rest of us.
Re:Dear Internet: Sorry. (Score:5, Funny)
You mean annoying like people who put their comments between <code> tags?
Re:Dear Internet: Sorry. (Score:5, Funny)
Re:Dear Internet: Sorry. (Score:2, Funny)
You know, there are already PLENTY of applications out there that blind users can use to turn text on screen to speech? And that a lot of people prefer to disable javascript from running?
Last thing we need is an "on Hover" Javascript ad, you mouse over, and audio gets maximized "FIND YOUR MATCH @ ADULTFINDER.COM!"