bvibber / audio-feeder

Small JS library to abstract Web Audio raw PCM output
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Plan for sunsetting Flash output path for IE #35

Closed bvibber closed 3 years ago

bvibber commented 4 years ago

Microsoft plans to push a Windows Update in late 2020 that will disable Flash in IE 11. This will prevent future use of of the dynamicaudio.swf helper.

I don't think there's another suitable output path for IE 11; <audio> + MSE only supports AAC audio as far as I can tell in this version, nothing uncompressed is available for appending during long-form decoding.

So use of the Flash path will be limited to old, un-updated machines, and will have diminishing returns and increasing maintenance burdens. As such I plan to sunset the Flash output path, which will remove IE compatibility for AudioFeeder. :(

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bvibber commented 3 years ago

Done in 0.5.0