This article contains 1 images. You will find them at the very end of the article.

This article contains 335 words.

Bruce Lawson – Native multimedia with HTML5

Bruce Lawson — Native multimedia with HTML5

• In: Resources
• By:Guy Leech
• June 4, 2011

Web Directions @media 2011, London, May 26th 1:40pm.

• Audio recording of session
• Presentation slides
• Session description
• About Bruce Lawson

Presentation slides

Session description

A much-​​​​​​hyped feature of HTML5 is native multimedia. In this session we’ll look at embedding and into your pages, and how to make it work cross-​​​​​​browser and degrade gracefully in older browsers. Sound too good to be true? It’s not!

We’ll look at the pros and the cons of HTML5 multimedia and see how to write simple controls with JavaScript. Most excitingly, we’ll also look at how HTML5 builds in support for subtitles and captions for multimedia accessibility. And you might pick up a Turkish dancing tip on the way.

About Bruce Lawson

Bruce evangelises Open Web Standards for Opera. He’s currently working with the British Standards Institution to draft the new Standard for commissioning accessible web sites and writing a book about HTML5. Previously, he’s been front-​​​​end technical lead for the Law Society and Solicitors Regulation Authority web sites, tutor to a princess’ daughter in Thailand, a movie extra in Bombay, and a tarot card reader in Istanbul. He blogs at brucelawson​.co​.uk, drinks Guinness and is training for a blue belt in kickboxing.

Follow Bruce on Twitter: @brucel

Related presentations

• Mark Nottingham - Browser Caching and You (A Love Story)
• Kevin Yank - CSS frameworks
• Michael Mahemoff - HTML5: Online and Offline
• Dmitry Baranovskiy - Raphaël: native web vector graphics library
• Cameron Moll & Tantek Çelik - Design and Coding at the Cutting Edge

Your opinion: