Audio Element For All Browsers

The adoption of html5 audio as with html5 video has become polarized between proponents of free and patent encumbered formats.

Audio element for all browsers. The audio tag is used to embed sound content in a document such as music or other audio streams. In 2007 the recommendation to use vorbis was retracted from the specification by the w3c together with that to use ogg theora citing the lack of a format accepted by all the major browser vendors. Browsers will attempt to load the source file in the coded order and if the file fails to load the browser will move onto the next source within the audio element. It can be good to set it to none on pages where you include multiple audio elements preventing the browser from downloading all the audio data.

It may contain one or more audio sources represented using the src attribute or the source element. Now we re not in a perfect world and you may want to provide multiple formats because mp3 is not an open format and therefore some browsers can t support it. To ensure reasonable coverage we should specify at least two different formats. The text between the audio and audio tags will only be displayed in browsers that do not support the audio element.

The audio tag contains one or more source tags with different audio sources. The browser will choose the first source it supports. The html audio element is used to embed sound content in documents. The two formats that will give maximum coverage are mp3 and ogg vorbis.