Chapter 7Embedding Audio and Video
Audio and video are integral parts of the modern Internet. Podcasts, audio previews, and even how-to videos are everywhere, and until a few years ago, they’ve only been truly usable via browser plug-ins like Flash. HTML5 introduces new methods to embed audio and video files into a page. In this chapter we’ll explore a few methods we can use to not only embed audio and video content, but also to ensure that it is available to people using older browsers and to people with disabilities.
We’ll discuss the following HTML5 features:
- <audio> [<audio src="drums.mp3"></audio>]
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Plays audio natively in the browser. [C4, F3.6, S3.2, IE9, O10.1, iOS3, A2]
- <video> [<video src="tutorial.m4v"></video>]
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Plays video natively ...
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