I was working with a plugin for custom <audio>
player and everything was fine. I was working in Safari browser on Mac OSX 10.8.2 , Once I decided to test project in other browsers things got very strange. In a nutshell, plugin is supposed to find <audio>
tags in a page and than change them to a different custom markup. Works fine in safari, but doesn't seem to work in firefox and opera
Firefox and Opera have following issue, there is a part in a plugin which, in case if audio source is unsupported format, creates different (mini) player which is basically a fallback for older browsers, however I don't see how firefox and opera show this fallback player, as both are very modern browsers.
Plugin originally comes from: http://tympanus.net/codrops/2012/12/04/responsive-touch-friendly-audio-player/ however I have made several changes e.g.
canPlayType = function( type )
{
var audioElement = document.createElement( 'audio' );
return !!( audioElement.canPlayType &&
audioElement.canPlayType( 'audio/' + type.toLowerCase() + ';' ).replace( /no/, '' ) );
};
and original is
canPlayType = function( file )
{
var audioElement = document.createElement( 'audio' );
return !!( audioElement.canPlayType &&
audioElement.canPlayType( 'audio/' + file.split( '.' ).pop().toLowerCase() + ';' ).replace( /no/, '' ) );
};
and another small change
else if( canPlayType( 'mp3' ) ) isSupport = true;
where as original is
else if( canPlayType( audioFile ) ) isSupport = true;
These modifications were made to specify that file in src is an mp3, instead of automatically detecting it (as I am not using local files, but instead soundcloud api generated url's). I can't see how such changes could have affected browsers to not work with a plugin. As there are many code files involved, Instead of posting them all here, I created a dropbox folder for you to see them all yourself here, you can try index.html file in different browsers so you can see what issues I am talking about: https://www.dropbox.com/sh/xutioz3hyrybvz3/f0-528WzH0
EDIT: I also created a live demo on jsbin http://jsbin.com/unupov/1/edit so you can see how player behaves in different browsers
EDIT 2: Ignore issues with chrome, thanks to user20140268 those have been fixed.