setranswer.blogg.se - Simple html5 audio player

Let's take a couple of these attributes and create a simple example that will play an audio file: Incidentally these are the same attributes defined for the element.

preload - none / metadata / auto - where 'metadata' means preload just the metadata and 'auto' leaves the browser to decide whether to preload the whole file.

controls - a boolean specifying whether the browser should display its default media controls.

loop - a boolean specifying whether the file should be repeatedly played.

autoplay - a boolean specifying whether the file should play as soon as it can.

src - a valid URL specifying the content source.

According to specĬurrently, the HTML5 spec defines five attributes for the element: For browsers that don't support audio natively, we can easily fallback to Flash. We can take advantage of this now as all of the major browsers support it - currently Firefox, Chrome, Safari and Opera, and Internet Explorer 9+. One of the most exciting and long-awaited features in HTML5 the element, enabling native audio playback within the browser. Although Adobe's Flash player is unquestionably the most ubiquitous of these, most developers and designers would agree that it's better not to rely on a plugin at all.

Until recently, the ability to play any type of audio within a browser involved using Adobe Flash or other browser plugins.

This article was last updated on to reflect changes in the spec.