Better error message when audio element has no source, or permit audio element to have source inserted dynamically. about html5media HOT 4 CLOSED

Hi,

Thanks for the report. There's certainly a way to accomplish what you're trying to do. Rather than attaching the source elements to the audio tag dynamically, try using a container element that you add complete audio elements too dynamically. Whenever you add an audio tag, call html5media() to kick in the fallback for unsupporting browsers.

Does your code work correctly in all html5-compliant browsers without including the html5media code? The reason I ask, is that I'm a bit unclear on whether an audio tag with no specified source is actually valid HTML. If it is, and your code works without error without html5media, then I'll add in this feature. If an audio tag with no source isn't valid HTML, then I'll adjust it to give a more informative error message.

The trunk version of the script handles loading audio source identically. Are you sure that you're using the complete, compiled version of the script when linking to the trunk?

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You're absolutely right that it's not clear from the standard whether omitting the source is valid. In my experience, it seems to work in Safari, Firefox, and Chrome, but the documentation is sparse enough that it's difficult to tell whether this is intentional.

Dynamically adding/replacing the audio element does seem like the way to go in the meantime. Thanks for the idea.

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I've updated the name of this issue.

I'm really not sure whether to make this throw an error, or just ignore media tags with no source. In the latter case, you'd still need to call html5media() to kick in the fallback player when the source has been dynamically inserted.

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I've updated the code to fail silently if no source element could be found. This allows the code to run without errors, since this markup is probably valid.

Once source elements have been supplied, the programmer can then call html5media() to kick in the fallback;

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