Peter Lubbers - Pro HTML 5 Programming

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CHAPTER 3 ■ WORKING WITH HTML5 AUDIO AND VIDEO
Figure 3-5. Mouseover video playback
Summary
In this chapter, we have explored what you can do with the two important HTML5 elements audio and
video. We have shown you how they can be used to create compelling web applications. The audio and
video elements add new media options to HTML5 applications that allow you to use audio and video
without plugins, while at the same time providing a common, integrated, and scriptable API.
First, we discussed the audio and video container files and codecs and why we ended up with the
codecs supported today. We then showed you a mechanism for switching to the most appropriate type
of content for the browser to display.
Next, we showed you how you can use control audio and video programmatically using the APIs and
finally we looked at how you can use of the HTML5 Audio and Video in your applications.
In the next chapter, we'll show how you can use geolocation to tailor your application's output to
the whereabouts of your users with a minimal amount of code.