![]() JPEG, PNG, BMP, GIF, even TIFF images all render just fine if for no better reason, perhaps, than being implemented during the ‘wild west’ days of the web. With, you typically don’t have to worry about format support – it just works – and that’s part of what makes a standard wonderful. You can imagine the added code complexity in the case of supporting ‘first class’ experiences for older browsers, too. Keep in mind, this is only a ‘first class’ experience for the HTML5 case also, for non-supported browsers, you may want to look at another inline player (object/embed, or a JavaScript plus Flash API) to have inline audio. What you end up writing, then, is something like this: In fact, as of November 2010, no single audio format is commonly supported across all major HTML5-enabled browsers. Conversely, nor is MP3, despite being a de facto standard used in all kinds of desktop software (and hardware). The first problem is that the OGG audio format, while ‘free’, is not supported by some browsers. Pretty straightforward – sounds easy, right? Īh, if only it were that simple. Just as with, a src attribute specifies the file to load. : the theoryĪs far as HTML goes, the code for is simple and logical. Suffice it to say, the experience was inconsistent at best and, on the standards side of the fence right now, so is HTML5 in terms of audio and video. In any event, browser plugins from programs like RealPlayer and QuickTime eventually helped to fill the in-page audio/video gap, handling and markup which pointed to. Perhaps there were quarrels about choosing a standard format or – more simply – maybe these elements just weren’t considered to be applicable to the HTML-based web at the time. Perhaps and were avoided, given the added technical complexity of decoding various multi-frame formats, plus the hardware and bandwidth limitations of the era. was introduced early and naturally to HTML, despite having some opponents at the time. In truth, standards like HTML can take much longer to bake, but eventually deliver the promise of a lowered barrier to entry, consistent implementations and shiny new features now possible ‘for free’ just about everywhere. ![]() From a simplistic perspective, it seems odd that HTML did not include support for the full multimedia experience earlier, despite the CD- ROM-based craze of the early 1990s. Sound involves one of the five senses, a key part of daily life for most – and yet it has been strangely absent from HTML and much of the web by default. The more popular CSS features are design flourishes that can degrade nicely, but the current audio and video implementations in particular suffer from a number of annoyances. Developers jumping on the cutting edge are using subsets of these features to little detriment, in most cases. These days, with CSS3, the magic is border-radius (and perhaps some vendor prefixes) followed by a coffee break.ĬSS3’s border-radius, box-shadow, text-shadow and gradients, and HTML5’s, and are some of the most anticipated features we’ll see put to creative (ab)use as adoption of the ‘new shiny’ grows. For fun, consider how many CSS2-based rounded corners hacks you’ve probably glossed over, looking for a magic solution. With the hype around HTML5 and CSS3 exceeding levels not seen since 2005’s Ajax era, it’s worth noting that the excitement comes with good reason: the two specifications render many years of feature hacks redundant by replacing them with native features.
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