I think sites should simply have to ask for audio permissions like they already do for camera, location or microphone.
The browser trying to figure out if I intended to play audio is way too error prone versus me just asking.
I work on an audiobook player as a developer have been fighting this junk on iOS for years, it’s nothing but trouble. If I could just secure a permission to play audio worry free it’d make my life so much easier. Right now we need to ensure that all our audio is triggered by a click event, and if it gets too many steps away from the click event itself, everything breaks. It’s literally defined and limited how we can abstract our code.
The browser trying to figure out if I intended to play audio is way too error prone versus me just asking.
I work on an audiobook player as a developer have been fighting this junk on iOS for years, it’s nothing but trouble. If I could just secure a permission to play audio worry free it’d make my life so much easier. Right now we need to ensure that all our audio is triggered by a click event, and if it gets too many steps away from the click event itself, everything breaks. It’s literally defined and limited how we can abstract our code.