![]() ![]() A free to use CDN hosted version of Video.js is available publicly. Started in 2010, Video.js is now actively used on 200,000 websites. Playback on the desktop and mobile devices is also supported. Until browsers add more support - and that’s a big maybe - your best bet is to keep using the demon-spawn known as Adobe Flash, or good old techniques from 1996. A web video player specifically built for HTML5, Video.js supports HTML5 and Flash video in addition to Vimeo and YouTube. There are many other deficiencies in browser support for HTML5 audio that you can read about in articles on the web. This results in not much support for HTML5 audio after all, if you need something robust (or want to test it on a machine without a web server). Yes, that means that doing something as simple as won’t work on most browsers, even those with MP3 support. That leaves one browser that can play MP3s from the local (same) filesystem: So if you want to play an audio file on your local filesystem (such as with a CD), then you’re out of luck - it has to go through a web server (HTTP) to play. That’s okay, because we can fall back to Flash for MP3 support (and for older browsers that don’t support HTML5 yet).īut here’s the kicker: Many browsers have more restrictive security for local files than internet files. So that leaves the following browsers with MP3 support: The specification doesn’t require any support for specific codecs. ![]() This is supposedly because of patent/open-source issues, so MP3 support may never come to those browsers. Okay, but it turns out that not all browsers can play MP3s. Just look at the wide support for on modern browsers: Should be easy, right? Just use MediaElement.js to automatically create an HTML5 element (with Flash fallback). The client is creating a webpage-on-a-CD (I know, I know) that will include audio samples of their music. This was made clear to me as I was working on creating an audio player drop-in solution for a client. Everyone talks about HTML5, but unfortunately there are still a lot of gaps in its support.
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