Google Chrome no longer breaks Web games, but the fix won’t last
In Summary : Google is rolling back a recent Chrome browser update that inadvertently broke the audio in many HTML5-based Web games. But t...
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In Summary :
Google is rolling back a recent Chrome browser update that inadvertently broke the audio in many HTML5-based Web games. But the browser maker says it plans to reimplement the feature in October, a move that has failed to satisfy many Web-based developers.In a post on the Chromium developer forums, Product Manager John Pallett admits that Google "didn’t do a good job of communicating the impact of the new autoplay policy to developers using the Web Audio API." For that reason, the current Chrome version 66 will no longer automatically mute Web Audio objects. Content contained in HTML5's <video> and <audio> tags will still be silenced, though, limiting the impact of auto-playing audio on what Pallett says is "most media playback" around the Web (which was the original intent of the Chrome auto-play policy).[...]
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https://arstechnica.com/?p=1309805
Google is rolling back a recent Chrome browser update that inadvertently broke the audio in many HTML5-based Web games. But the browser maker says it plans to reimplement the feature in October, a move that has failed to satisfy many Web-based developers.In a post on the Chromium developer forums, Product Manager John Pallett admits that Google "didn’t do a good job of communicating the impact of the new autoplay policy to developers using the Web Audio API." For that reason, the current Chrome version 66 will no longer automatically mute Web Audio objects. Content contained in HTML5's <video> and <audio> tags will still be silenced, though, limiting the impact of auto-playing audio on what Pallett says is "most media playback" around the Web (which was the original intent of the Chrome auto-play policy).[...]
kindly refer the following link as follow up :
https://arstechnica.com/?p=1309805
