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WebAudio: Remove prefixed AudioContext and OfflineAudioContext

Category

Multimedia

Type

New or changed feature

Status

Enabled by default (Chrome 57)

Intent stage

None

Summary

Support for webkitAudioContext and webkitOfflineAudioContext is removed in favor of AudioContext and OfflineAudioContext. Currently warnings are produced, but upon removal, the prefixed versions will no longer exist.

Standards & signals

• Specification: http://webaudio.github.io/web-audio-api/
• Firefox: Positive
• Safari: No signal
• Web developers: No signals
• Tracking bug: https://crbug.com/665887

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