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Seems like we're going back to "Built for Internet Explorer" days.

It's a fun hack done for no money.

With that in mind, do you really expect the author(s) to tackle the vagaries of cross-browser bugs in bleeding edge web-audio API's?

Why would you say that? The author said them self that this works best in Safari and Chrome.

http://static.echonest.com/InfiniteGangnamStyle/faq.html

People used to build websites and tweak them for a particular browser. They'd use tags that only worked with one browser, or attributes that worked better with one browser than another.

They'd then stick a little graphic on the page saying "This site works best in [Browser name]"; often with a download link.

When Nux says "Seems like we're going back to "Built for Internet Explorer" days." I guess they're saying "It seems that we're going back to a time when people tweaked their websites to work with a particular browser, rather than concentrating on standards compliant code and cross browser compatibility".

Well, these days, I write a website using web standards, it works great in Chrome, Firefox, and IE10, except for one CSS style that IE doesn't support, ruining it for IE10 users. And so I unintentionally end up creating something only usable in Chrome or Firefox.

Except Web Audio API is a W3C standard.

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