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> As a good parallel, see Firefox's incompatible Audio Data API, produced just as the Webkit-born Web Audio API was picking up steam.

Wait, what? Audio Data was implemented in mid 2010 - way, way before Web Audio existed. Links:

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Audio_Data_API http://www.w3.org/standards/history/webaudio

Is there something incorrect in either of those, or some prior history to WebAudio I am not aware of?

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As far as I know you are correct. Mozilla released the Audio Data API and produced a number of demos based on that. A W3C group was formed to work on Web Audio standardisation and in that group Google announced the work on their API.

Mozilla then followed with a "Media Processing" API: http://robert.ocallahan.org/2011/06/media-processing_15.html

It's possible that person you are responding to is thinking of that.

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