2. HTML5 Multimedia Elements
Now that you’re armed with the basic history of HTML5 and its structural elements, you can start learning about HTML5 multimedia, its elements, their attributes, and the combined functionality that they bring.
HTML 4.01 had no defined method of bringing audio and video to a website, which led to a huge popularity in third-party plugins, such as Flash, to deliver multimedia content. But HTML5 provides this much-needed structure to deliver audio and video across the Internet through a web browser.
This chapter offers some history of multimedia in the browser and how the playback of audio and video was achieved through the many applications, players, and plugins that various vendors released. Then you’ll learn about ...
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