I am creating an audio element in JavaScript and then appending it to my document. I am controlling it through JavaScript as well. It works fine in Firefox, Chrome, and Opera but not on IE and Safari. In those two browsers, the readyState of the audio element never changes from 0 nor do any associated events fire. Here is my basic program:
var init = function() {
var audioElement = createAudioElement();
audioElement.addEventListener('canplay', function() {
audioElement.play();
trace(audioElement.readyState);
}, false);
document.body.appendChild(audioElement);
//audioElement.play();
}
var createAudioElement = function() {
var m4a = 'song.m4a';
var ogg = 'song.ogg';
var m4aSrc = document.createElement('source');
m4aSrc.setAttribute('src', m4a);
m4aSrc.setAttribute('type', 'audio/mp4');
var oggSrc = document.createElement('source');
oggSrc.setAttribute('src', ogg);
oggSrc.setAttribute('type', 'audio/ogg');
var audioEle = document.createElement('audio');
audioEle.setAttribute('preload', 'preload');
audioEle.appendChild(m4aSrc);
audioEle.appendChild(oggSrc);
return audioEle;
}