Comprehensive html5 Audio API

Question

For the life of me, I cannot find a complete listing of all html5 events and attributes (though I believe they may vary between browsers). A lot of m

Answer 1

• HTML5 spec: the audio element
• When can I use... audio compatibility tables (and links to external resources)

Unfortunately you're experiencing firsthand the fact that there simply is no official JavaScript API for audio (yet).

Answer 2

As you can see from Matt's fine canIuse link

"Consistant cross-browser support for audio is currently a mess in HTML5 ..."

so you should take a look at sound.js ;)

"... but SoundJS works to abstract away the problems and makes adding sound to your games or rich experiences much easier. "

--> Polyfill : SoundJS

Answer 3

w3schools has a useful event, property and method list for audio/video. Although it does not address cross browser concerns:

http://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_av_dom.asp