Breakthroughs In HTML Audio Via Manipulation With JavaScript

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.

[B5_geek]

All I can think of is <BLINK> </BLINK> turned into audio!

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.

[Yvan256]

You mean annoying like people who put their comments between <code> tags?

Re:Dear Internet: Sorry.

[K. S. Kyosuke]

Well, he's a disciplined programmer, he puts comments in his code.

Re:Dear Internet: Sorry.

[Monkeedude1212]

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!"