Pause a sound when user leaves the page on mobile Safari

Question

I am playing audio in Background of an application but I want to stop when user minimises or Safari goes to background.

I have already tried working element.onfocus.

I also tried to use window.requestAnimFrame but its results are not satisfactory.

I can't figure out how to stop the audio.

Look my answer here: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/11085409/detect-moving-to-a-new-tab-in-mobile-safari/11164387#11164387. It's to detect the focus! — Alexandre Khoury, Jun 24 '12 at 11:22
@Mageek I have to stop the audio when the application tab is hidden or minimised....please suggest something.?? — Varun Agarwal, Jun 24 '12 at 11:51
"When the application tab is hidden or minimised" means onblur, and I don't know any way how to detect the "onblur" event :( If you find a way later, it would be good to post it here. — Alexandre Khoury, Jun 24 '12 at 12:36

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jul 10 '12 at 09:24

you might have success with the pageshow and pagehide events, which are triggered when safari goes to the background.

however there is no event that i know of, when you switch tabs within safari.

also here is a small library that does most of the work for you: https://github.com/zynga/jukebox

score -1 · Answer 2 · answered Jun 24 '12 at 13:32

-1

As answer to you and to Mageek comment, you should check the onfocus event and the onblur event (it is possible) prefered using jQuery :

$(window).focus(function() { 
//enable sound
}); 

$(window).blur(function() { 
//disable sound
});

This will probably do the trick, but havn't tested it.

answered Jun 24 '12 at 13:32

eric.itzhak

blur and focus events are not defined in mobile safari. As I have given in the post I have already tried working out with them....if it did helped. – Varun Agarwal Jun 24 '12 at 13:44
I havn't found any information about your claim. are you sure about that? – eric.itzhak Jun 24 '12 at 16:28
yaa......i m sure that it is not working as i have tried implementing it before i post this question here. – Varun Agarwal Jun 24 '12 at 19:58

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