Tell HN: Legacy WebAudio content will break in Chrome 70

Re:Tell HN: Legacy WebAudio content will break in Chrome 70 by amluto on Tuesday September 25, 2018 @02:54PM (#18069316)

I can think of a far better browser policy: no sound until the user explicitly allows sounds for the page. Just like location services.

Because, damn it, I generally don’t want sound. And I definitely don’t want sound unless I explicitly ask for it.

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Re:Tell HN: Legacy WebAudio content will break in Chrome 70 by uglycoyote on Wednesday September 26, 2018 @10:49AM (#18076489)

Yes, I agree completely. Reading the discussions, it seems that the chrome team had sidestepped doing this as it would involve a "non trivial UI" but I am scratching my head wondering how a dialog box that says "do you want to allow websites from the domain xyz.com to play sounds?" constitutes a non trivial amount of UI work.

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