Apple removed support for my old hack (which wasn’t so much a hack as a correct usage of the spec) in iOS 4.2, as I thought they might. Check out my resume, and follow me on Twitter! Easy, huh? Easily fixed.
The basic premise of this hack is that you can load the audio before playing it – if the audio is loaded, a call to play will play it, interaction or no. Now your audio will hide and autoplay for every iOS user who visits your site. Syntax:
Below example illustrates the autoplay attribute in HTML: Example: Here is the most basic use of the HTML tag: On this example it loads a .mp3 file from your webserver and plays it.. Notice the autoplay attribute which is used to play audio files automatically. and tags will only be displayed in browsers that do not support the element. Next, the javascript. A little bit of CSS will fix that for you. Okay, calm down. Check out my resume, and follow me on Twitter! A sprinkle of Javascript. It’s not precisely autoplaying, but it works on more recent versions of iOS. In fact, so simple that I’d expect it to stop working at any moment. Keith here again, as promised. Bounce is now available, for free, on Zune marketplace. This is a fairly standard audio tag. Want to just see it in action? Simple stuff, really. Using to Insert an Audio Element on Your Website. In my opinion, the likeliest is a scroll. This, again, is so simple that even I could do it. For most pages, the user will have to scroll. Keith here again, as promised. The current version contains some game-play bugs but an […], looks like they broke it again in iOS 5 ;(. Users hate it. Hello again. Learn more.