Chrome unsuitable for html5-based streaming live radio?

[Guest]

Chrome is my default browser, but it seems that since version 29 (it is now on v32) it has a problem in playing html5-based streaming radio. To clarify, it has no problem in playing a recorded stream, as in an iPlayer programme for example, the problem being only on a 'listen-live' stream, where Chrome interrupts the initial received input and cancels it, and then downloads a basic .pls (Audio Playlist) file.

The bug, which is listed on the Chrome bug reports, is reported as being intermittent, but seems not to be dependent on operating system, nor on the audio stream bitrate or sampling rate.

Firefox and IE do not have a problem with html5-based live streams.

Is anyone else experiencing the same problem with Chrome?

Russ

[David-G]

Maybe I should be glad that I have been unadventurous and have stuck with IE.

[Dave2002]

Maybe I should be glad that I have been unadventurous and have stuck with IE.

I doubt it.

For years IE didn't manage to get through some compatibility tests, though it has I gather caught up now - http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2...milestone.aspx

If I suspect problems I sometimes use the acid2 and acid3 tests:

http://www.webstandards.org/action/acid2/

http://acid3.acidtests.org/

Interesting though, my current copy of Firefox has not done well on acid2 just now!

There's also an HTML5 compatibility test - http://html5test.com/
My Firefox has only 446 out of 555

Other browsers (running on Mountain Lion on a Macbook Pro):

Safari: 397
Chrome: 503
Opera: 392

There are also some other cross-browser compatibility tools for developers - http://webdesignledger.com/tools/use...-compatibility

These tests and tools don't necessarily address the issue of audio streaming raised, however. I haven't noticed the particular problem with chrome, but that could simply be because I don't use that too often for audio streaming sites.

It'd be interesting to know what the score for IE (various versions) is now. I can't do that easily as I've more or less given up on Windows in the interests of sanity and having a decent life.

[Dave2002]

Following the above, I also found this interesting looking page which tests out web pages using different browsers - http://browsershots.org/