How can I autoplay media in iOS >= 4.2.1 Mobile Safari?

Question

I cannot seem to get audio media to play in Mobile Safari on iOS 4.2.1 in any situation other than the handler of a click event performed by the user. Even then, if p

Answer 1

On my 3rd-gen iPad running IOS 6, autoplay of HTML5 tags has suddenly begun working! (I've had IOS 6 installed for a couple of weeks, and am pretty sure I tested this feature right away, but only noticed it working tonight.) I don't recall seeing any notice of this from Apple, although I did see that mobile Safari had been granted the ability to support file uploads via

-- another feature I needed but which Apple had withheld.