HTML5 promotes multimedia

Syncing Content With HTML5 Video - Smashing Magazine

Submitted by michael on Thu, 01/01/2015 - 16:03

One of the main changes from HTML4 to HTML5 is that the new specification breaks a few
of the boundaries that browsers have been confined to. Instead of restricting user
interaction to text, links, images and forms, HTML5 promotes multimedia, from a generic
<object> element to a highly specified <video> and <audio> element, and
with a rich API to access in pure JavaScript. Native multimedia capability has a few
benefits. For instance, end users have full control over the multimedia. The native controls