Naming of OfflineAudioContext

[chrislo]

The following issue was raised by the W3C TAG as part of their review of the Web Audio API

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OfflineAudioContext is terribly named. In a browser, "offline" means something very different. BulkProcessingContext might be better.

[sebpiq]

The term "Batch processing" is used in general for audio programming languages. Google searches for "CSound bulk processing", or "SuperCollider bulk processing", etc ... prove this :

https://www.google.com/search?client=ubuntu&channel=fs&q=csound+bulk+processing&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8
https://www.google.com/search?client=ubuntu&channel=fs&q=csound+bulk+processing&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8#channel=fs&q=supercollider+bulk+processing
https://www.google.com/search?client=ubuntu&channel=fs&q=csound+bulk+processing&ie=utf-8&oe=utf-8#channel=fs&q=pure+data+sound+bulk+processing

[cwilso]

Do we really want to do a name change here?

[padenot]

I think that ship has sailed, it's super super widely used, now.

[joeberkovitz]

Closing due to compatibility concerns