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The Definitive Guide to HTML5 Video

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  • © 2011

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Authors:
  1. Silvia Pfeiffer
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  • This book is the first comprehensive guide to HTML5 Video, the new web standard that allows browsers to support audio and video elements natively.

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xiv
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  2. Introduction

    • Silvia Pfeiffer
    Pages 1-7

  3. Audio and Video Elements

    • Silvia Pfeiffer
    Pages 9-48

  4. CSS3 Styling

    • Silvia Pfeiffer
    Pages 49-79

  5. JavaScript API

    • Silvia Pfeiffer
    Pages 81-134

  6. HTML5 Media and SVG

    • Silvia Pfeiffer
    Pages 135-163

  7. HTML5 Media and Canvas

    • Silvia Pfeiffer
    Pages 165-201

  8. HTML5 Media and Web Workers

    • Silvia Pfeiffer
    Pages 203-222

  9. HTML5 Audio API

    • Silvia Pfeiffer
    Pages 223-245

  10. Media Accessibility and Internationalization

    • Silvia Pfeiffer
    Pages 247-282

  11. Audio and Video Devices

    • Silvia Pfeiffer
    Pages 283-296

  12. Back Matter

    Pages 297-321
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About this book

Plugins will soon be a thing of the past. The Definitive Guide to HTML5 Video is the first authoritative book on HTML5 video, the new web standard that allows 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), integrated into SVG (scalable vector graphics), and manipulated in a Canvas. The book offers techniques for providing accessibility to media elements, enabling consistent handling of alternative representations of media resources.

The Definitive Guide to HTML5 Video 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 and Ogg Theora codecs.

About the author

Dr. Silvia Pfeiffer has worked on novel media technology for more than 15 years and is an internationally renowned expert in new Web video standards. Silvia is originally from Germany, but now lives in Australia.

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