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Dominic Szablewski

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My name is Dominic Szablewski. I build games, experiment with JavaScript and occasionally tinker with low-level C.

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The State of HTML5 Audio

When I started to work on my JavaScript Game Engine back in October 2009, the biggest problems I encountered were with the new HTML5 Audio Element. The Canvas Element already worked nicely in all browsers that supported it at the time, albeit some were a little slow.