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Using the HTML5 Audio and Video Elements

Using the new audio and video elements to enhance your web page Getting audio and video onto your web page in past years required a great deal of work. In order to get complete control over your audio or video and its appearance on the web page, you also required at least some knowledge of Flash. As recent events unfolded, Flash no longer became a viable option for any sort of media accessed via a mobile browser. So, how do we display audio and video now? With the advent of HTML5 and the additional tags it provides, we now have a relatively easy solution to the problem. This requires no additional programming language, no bulky objects to import, and even gracefully failing however you’d like (instead of an Adobe message). With the new <audio> and <video> tags, you are able to embed multimedia onto your web page and you get

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