I’ve been looking at creating an on-line audio recorder for potential use on language learning websites. Most solutions out there seem to revolve around javascript and Flash, and I’ve already successfully played around with these to produce a Flash-based (user-agent limited) solution. But what if you want to develop for the iPad, or an Android device? HTML 5  still seems to be in its infancy with regard to audio capture, understandably since producing an all-encompassing, secure, easy-to-use method for manipulating a device’s microphone system for on-line use is no mean feat. I’m going to be keeping an eye out on the (slow but) steadily evolving audio/video capture standards in HTML 5. (useful link: http://www.w3.org/TR/html-media-capture/) This seems to be the way forward. Flash is dead (!) – long live Flash!