Chapter 5Basics: Multimedia, Audio and Video
Perhaps the biggest change in HTML5 is its multimedia capabilities. HTML5 brings with it native audio and video, and almost replaces the plugins of the old web. I say "almost" because browser vendors have yet to agree on a default format for web audio and video.
We’ll talk about cross-browser support later in this chapter. First
let’s look at the bare minimum necessary to add video to your web page: a
video tag and a src attribute.
<video src="path_to_file.video"></video>
In HTML5, that closing tag is required. If you’re using XHTML syntax,
you can self-close it instead like so: <video
src="path_to_file.video" />. The audio
element is almost the same. All that’s required is the opening
audio tag, a ...
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