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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
New HTML5 Capabilities
Let’s take a look at some new HTML5 capabilities HTML5 has caused many ripples in the technology community over the past few years. There are a lot of different aspects of this that are still hazy, and a lot that change every day. That’s one of the exciting things about the technology field, there’s always something more to learn and there’s always information that changes. In this article, we’re going to take a beginner’s look into the new HTML5 elements and what they’re used for. In addition, we’re going to inspect one of our old favorites, the <input> element. Some additional attributes and types are now available to use with this that you could have a lot of fun with. New HTML5 Elements One of the most exciting parts of HTML5 is the semantic elements that will be used. These elements are meant to contain what their title implies, always.