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<body><span class="vcard"><a class="email" href="mailto:ashley@scirra.com" title="Ashley Gullen <ashley@scirra.com>"> <span class="fn">Ashley Gullen</span></a>
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title="NEW - REGRESSION: WebAudio user-gesture restriction is no longer lifted by touchstart event"
href="https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=149367">bug 149367</a>
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title="NEW - REGRESSION: WebAudio user-gesture restriction is no longer lifted by touchstart event"
href="https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=149367#c2">Comment # 2</a>
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title="NEW - REGRESSION: WebAudio user-gesture restriction is no longer lifted by touchstart event"
href="https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=149367">bug 149367</a>
from <span class="vcard"><a class="email" href="mailto:ashley@scirra.com" title="Ashley Gullen <ashley@scirra.com>"> <span class="fn">Ashley Gullen</span></a>
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<pre>This affects a huge amount of existing web content. All Construct 2 content, and as far as I can tell all Phaser, soundjs and howler.js content is affected, because all these frameworks rely on touchstart to unblock the Web Audio API.
I have made two test cases:
<a href="https://www.scirra.com/labs/bugs/iosaudio/touchstart.html">https://www.scirra.com/labs/bugs/iosaudio/touchstart.html</a> - unblocks in touchstart event, only plays audio in iOS 8 and older
<a href="https://www.scirra.com/labs/bugs/iosaudio/touchend.html">https://www.scirra.com/labs/bugs/iosaudio/touchend.html</a> - unblocks in touchend event, works in iOS 9 as well
More discussion here: <a href="http://www.html5gamedevs.com/topic/17326-ios-9-webaudio-issues/">http://www.html5gamedevs.com/topic/17326-ios-9-webaudio-issues/</a>
I'd estimate most web content in the wild using the Web Audio API now remains silent on iOS 9, basically making it useless. This is a severe regression from iOS 8; us framework developers can distribute workarounds, but we cannot update all the existing broken content out there, Safari needs to be fixed as well.</pre>
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