[GRLUG] audio tags

Thu Nov 17 16:45:51 EST 2011

Despite all of the malformations, the original code actually worked fine on
my Google Chrome, Ubuntu 11.10.

On Thu, Nov 17, 2011 at 4:43 PM, Topher <topher at codeventure.net> wrote:

> On 11/17/2011 04:27 PM, Bob Kline wrote:
> > <!DOCTYPE html5>
> > <body>
> > <audio controls="controls">
> > <source src="kk.mp3" type="audio/mp3" />
> > Your browser does not support the audio tag.
> > </audio>
> > </body>
> > </html5>
> >
> >
> > The file is called xx.html5
>
> I'm assuming your web server knows how to deal with .html5 files.
>
> In your code sample above there's no <head></head>, and there's no
> <html></html>.  This would cause the file to not be valid html, and
> could easily make the browser freak out.  Here's the proper code:
>
>
> <!DOCTYPE html5>
> <html>
>        <head>
>                <title>Bob's awesome audio</title>
>        </head>
>         <body>
>                <audio controls="controls">
>                        <source src="kk.mp3" type="audio/mp3" />
>                        Your browser does not support the audio tag.
>                </audio>
>        </body>
> </html>
>
> Indenting is not necessary, I just did it for clarity.
>
> Keep in mind that Firefox won't play mp3's and I don't think IE will
> play ogg.  That's why they made it possible, and suggest, that you put
> source tags for both audio formats.  The browser plays the one it can.
>
> All that said, you might want to check out http://mediaelementjs.com/
>
> It's a small javascript app that detects browsers nicely and makes an
> html5 player with the proper file format and falls back to flash when
> the browser can't do html5.
>
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