Tag: HTML

Developing With The HTML5 Element

Videos have been a great way to attract viewers to a website long before YouTube launched back in 2005. But it wasn’t until the release of HTML5 that web developers have had a lightweight solution to playing the video. In the past, displaying a video on your site meant your viewer was required to have a Flash or Java-based player installed on their system in order to watch the video. This was one more thing that would weigh down your site, causing pages to load slower, and be one more thing you’d have to trust the viewer to download and install.

An Introduction to HTML5′s Video API Part 2

This is the second part in our introduction to HTML5′s video API. In part 1 of this series, I introduced you to the basic markup we’ll be using to play the video, then I helped set up a simple script with which we were able to make the controls visible, while ensuring that the native controls will still be visible when JavaScript is disabled.

Wrapping Your Head Around HTML5 Canvas: Part 4

If you’ve made it this far in the series you should have a core understand on the basics and how all of them fit together inside of Canvas.Unfortunately for you, you’re used to my terribly dry sense of humor as well.Congratulations are in order though if you’ve stuck it out, because today we’ll be diving into some of the more advanced 2D Canvas API features.