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From: "Christoph M. Becker" <cmbecker69@arcor.de>
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Subject: Re: test for autoplay
Date: Wed, 21 Jan 2015 23:35:07 +0100
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Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn wrote:

> Andrew Poulos wrote:
> 
>>      $(audio).on('play', function() {
>>        AUTOPLAY = true;
>>      });
>>
>> Alas I don't understand "$(audio).on('play', function() {"
>>
>> What is it doing?
> 
> This is the jQuery way of adding an event listener for the “play” event to 
> the element referred to by “audio”.  Apparently the standards-compliant
> 
>   audio.onplay = function () {
>     AUTOPLAY = true;
>   };
> 
> was too hard for them :->

I had only found the onplay property of the MediaController
interface[1], but have not been able to verify that the HTMLAudioElement
interface is supposed to inherit MediaController.  Where is that specified?

> This code creates an “audio” element in memory (using a proprietary 
> approach; the standards-compliant approach would be 
> “document.createElement("audio")”) 

It seems to me the Audio constructor is specified in the W3C HTML5
Recommendation.[2]

[1]
<http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/embedded-content-0.html#handler-mediacontroller-onplay>
[2] <http://www.w3.org/TR/html5/embedded-content-0.html#dom-audio>

-- 
Christoph M. Becker