HTML5 Audio not working in ie7 or ie8

Question

When testing in IE7/8 my script crashes and I get this error...

SCRIPT438: Object doesn\'t support property or method \'play\'

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Answer 1

If the browser does not support HTML5 audio, there is not much you can do besides use a substitute for those browsers. According to w3schools:

Internet Explorer 8 and earlier versions, do not support the element.

Source: http://www.w3schools.com/html/html5_audio.asp