HTML Media

HTML Media

  • Multimedia on the web is sound, music, videos, movies, and animations.
  • Multimedia comes in many different formats. It can be almost anything you can hear or see.
  • Web pages often contain multimedia elements of different types and formats.

Browser Support

  • The first web browsers had support for text only, limited to a single font in a single color.
  • Later came browsers with support for colors and fonts, and images.
  • Audio, video, and animation have been handled differently by the major browsers. Different formats have been supported, and some formats require extra helper programs (plug-ins) to work.
  • HTML5 multimedia promises an easier future for multimedia.

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