However, the future still holds promise: “we are big advocates of the upcoming device API (getUserMedia) and we hope in future to be able to capture sounds in the browser without Flash”. Matas says “we want to offer users the best experience possible, and currently the mobile browsers are still behind”.
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Because of this SoundCloud heavily promote their native apps to iOS and Android users. Matas says “The response has been overwhelming, we already have most of the browser makers participating, and we look optimisticly towards 2012!”Īdditional problems in mobile devices include recording sound, the lack of widespread support for position:fixed for UI, and the lack of frequent (or any) mobile browser updates – Android WebKit is becoming the modern IE6. To combat this Toms Senart (opens in new tab) and Yves Van Goethem (opens in new tab) created the audio test suite “ Are We Playing Yet?”. However, HTML5 Audio is not the default due to what Matas describes as “the poor state of HTML5 Media API implementation in web browsers”. Unfortunately there’s also some user agent sniffing (albeit for pragmatic reasons), and little use of new HTML5 elements or form attributes (although this is changing). Matas Petrikas (opens in new tab) says “We are especially proud of our use of Canvas in rendering of the widget waveform, the optimisations helped us to reduce the CPU load compared to Flash significantly”.
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In addition to and the Audio API, they also use data-* attributes heavily, plus Canvas, SVG, and LocalStorage. This has also allowed SoundCloud to support the iPad, and they’ve recently released an HTML5-based widget (opens in new tab). While the desktop web app uses Flash to play audio, there’s an option to use HTML5 Audio in settings (opens in new tab). It’s also a great case study in pragmatic use of HTML5. SoundCloud (opens in new tab) is a service for recording and sharing sounds, and is a popular way for artists and DJs to share mixes and expand their fan base. You can read more in Addy Osmani’s The Smashing Guide To Moving The Web Forward. How fantastic would it be if there were so many hands that the burden didn’t fall on just a few? Together, let’s make the web rawk even harder!”. In Beyond the Blue Beanie?, Stephanie (Sullivan) Rewis comments “As the saying goes, many hands make light work. (The important bit is
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