html - Does the html5 audio tag encompass .mid (MIDI) unofficially?

Question

It seems clear that officially the html5 audio tag is intended for use with the ogg format.

Does the html5 audio tag encompass .mid (MIDI) unofficially?

Answer 1

Updates:

This is a somewhat old question but it is still highly ranked on Google so here are some updates to the answers above - standards and tools that may have not been available when the question was asked but may be useful to people who find this question today:

• Web MIDI API (this is currently a W3C Editor's Draft from December 26, 2012 - ie. today - so it may change)
• MIDI.js - playing MIDI with JavaScript
• jasmid - MIDI synthesis with JavaScript

See also those questions:

• Generate live MIDI from Javascript
• generating MIDI in javascript