HTML MultimediaMultimedia on the web, is sound, music, videos, movies, and animations.
What is Multimedia?Multimedia comes in many different formats. It can be almost anything you can hear or see.
Examples: Pictures, music, sound, videos, records, films, animations, and more. Web pages often contains multimedia elements of different types and formats. In this chapter you will learn about the different multimedia formats. Browser SupportThe 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 even support for pictures! The support for sounds, animations, and videos is handled differently by various browsers. Different types and formats are supported, and some formats requires extra helper programs (plug-ins) to work. Hopefully this will become history. HTML5 multimedia promises an easier future for multimedia. Multimedia FormatsMultimedia elements (like sounds or videos) are stored in media files.
The most common way to discover the type of a file, is to look at the file extension. When a browser sees the file extension .htm or .html, it will treat the file as an HTML file. The .xml extension indicates an XML file, and the .css extension indicates a style sheet file. Pictures are recognized by extensions like .gif, .png and .jpg. Multimedia files also have their own formats and different extensions like: .swf, .wav, .mp3, .mp4, .mpg, .wmv, and .avi. Common Video FormatsSound FormatsMP3 is the newest format for compressed recorded music. The term MP3 has become synonymous with digital music.
If your website is about recorded music, MP3 is the choice. |
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