Chapter 9. Multimedia
Although audio and video have been a popular part of the Web for many years on sites such as YouTube, Dailymotion, and SoundCloud, they’ve always been second-class citizens, relying on third-party plug-ins (especially Flash) to operate. A reliance on plug-ins isn’t a good long-term plan for website owners or browser makers, not least because the user is responsible for keeping them up-to-date. Surely, updating audio and media capabilities along with the browser is best, especially since most browsers have a frequent update cycle nowadays.
Plug-ins can also cause stability issues, as Steve Jobs famously noted when detailing ...
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