WebAudio: Allow developers to close an AudioContext explicitly

An AudioContext can now be explicitly closed, thereby releasing any hardware resources associated with the AudioContext. Without this, developers had to depend on garbage collection of the AudioContext to release hardware resources.

Demo

• https://github.com/GoogleChrome/samples/tree/gh-pages/webaudio-audiocontext-close

Documentation

• http://webaudio.github.io/web-audio-api/#widl-AudioContext-close-Promise;
• https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/AudioContext/close

Specification

Editor's draft

Status in Chromium

Blink components: Blink

Enabled by default (launch bug) in:

• Chrome for desktop release 43
• Opera release 30
• Opera for Android release 30

Consensus & Standardization

• Firefox: No public signals
• Edge: No public signals
• Safari: No public signals
• Web Developers: Positive

Owners

• rtoy@chromium.org
• hongchan@chromium.org

Last updated on 2017-06-14