Beginning HTML5 Media Second Edition is a comprehensive introduction to HTML5 video and audio.
The HTML5 video standard enables browsers to support audio and video elements natively. This
makes it very easy for web developers to publish audio and video integrating both within the
general presentation of web pages. For example media elements can be styled using CSS (style
sheets) viewed on a mobile device and manipulated in a Canvas or an audio filter graph. The
book offers techniques for providing accessibility to media elements enabling consistent
handling of alternative representations of media resources. The update includes all of the
changes and revisions since the first HTML5 draft. Beginning HTML5 Media dives deep into the
markup that is introduced for media element support in browsers. You ll explore the default
user interface offered through browsers for media elements as well as the JavaScript API
provided to control their behavior. You ll also learn how to account for H.264 WebM and Ogg
Theora codecs as well as explore the emerging Web Audio API standard which provides an
extensive set of hardware-accelerated audio filters to achieve a level of audio signal
manipulation in the browser previously only available to audio professionals.
