Intervention: Web Audio user gesture requirement on cross origin iframes on Android

Category: Multimedia
Type: New or changed feature
Status: Enabled by default (Chrome 55)
Intent stage: None

Summary

This will require a user gesture in order to start playback using Web Audio in a cross origin iframe, the same way a user gesture is required to play an audio or video element.

Standards & signals

Firefox: Positive
Safari: Shipped/Shipping
Web developers: No signals
Tracking bug: https://crbug.com/614115

Docs: https://github.com/WICG/interventions/issues/28 https://github.com/WebAudio/web-audio-api/issues/836

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