Specify that "canplay" event, not being fired by mobile Safari on Audio

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MDN URL

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HTMLMediaElement/canplay_event

What specific section or headline is this issue about?

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What information was incorrect, unhelpful, or incomplete?

canplay event doesn't fire on iOS 17 mobile Safari for Audio

What did you expect to see?

Just add a note about the fact that, at least on iOS 17, Safari doesn't fire this event anymore, and it can't be used to check if we can play audio in the moment. As a workaround, you can use loadedmetadata or add autoplay to every single audio tag and pause it immediately - I think in that case Safari will actually fire this event.

Do you have any supporting links, references, or citations?

"HTMLAudioElement issues in iOS 17.4": https://forums.developer.apple.com/forums/thread/748001

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• Folder: en-us/web/api/htmlmediaelement/canplay_event
• MDN URL: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HTMLMediaElement/canplay_event
• GitHub URL: https://github.com/mdn/content/blob/main/files/en-us/web/api/htmlmediaelement/canplay_event/index.md
• Last commit: https://github.com/mdn/content/commit/b71d118ffc6d72b77efad9661110fcc9ede464eb
• Document last modified: 2024-07-25T14:22:56.000Z

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