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Managing Media and More in HTML
In This Chapter
Understanding media support in HTML5
Working with audio, video, and more
Crafting useful web page controls
Working with frames in web pages . . . or not?
Increasingly, the web is becoming more than just a medium for accessing text and images. On the one hand, the web is embracing an ever-widening array of media, such as audio, video, and other forms of streaming media (video calls, video conferences, live audio, and so on). On the other hand, the web provides a platform for all kinds of interactive applications that provide services, crunch numbers, and do the kinds of things that people once called on computers to run locally and autonomously through their web browsers instead. Writing web-enabled software is beyond the scope of this book, but dealing with media in HTML5 is not.
HTML5 adds standard ways of playing media to the basic markup mix. Earlier versions of HTML had to rely on browser plug-ins to handle any kind of media. ...
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