The earliest browser to support the audio tag that I can find would be Safari 3....

		shakna on Feb 15, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Tell HN: I let my 6-year-old daughter design my we... The earliest browser to support the audio tag that I can find would be Safari 3.1, or the first release of Chrome, in 2008. (No support in Netscape. Firefox in 2009, IE got it in 2010, Opera in 2011). Before then, I'd be expecting bgsound on IE, or embed for everyone else, or object and a plugin.

You could do audio with the adobe svg plugin round about 2002-3 I think. I made a pong game with stereo ball noise.