Question: What do people think about making <audio> more like <canvas> as sketched above?
I don't believe it would be appropriate for the <audio> tag to take on such an API. My reason is that <canvas> is very different from other elements -- it doesn't actually support any form of image loading itself, all content must be created by script (to paint images to canvas you must create Image objects/elements to load the images that you then paint, canvas cannot do this directly).
The <audio> (and <video>) tags on the other hand are effectively multimedia equivalents to the <img> tag, in that their purpose is to display existing remote content, rather than to create content on the client side.
-- Markus
--Oliver
