Articles by Mark Boas

Mark is a developer and co-founder of happyworm. He is interested in technologies such as AJAX and Comet and their role in improving web user experience. Positively brimming with ideas, he recently came up with the jQuery audio plugin; jPlayer. When not working Mark likes to scoot around Chiantishire on his Vespa. You can follow Mark on Twitter.

Native Audio in the browser

Until very recently the ability to play any type of audio within a browser involved using Adobe Flash or other browser plugins. Although Adobe’s Flash player is without doubt the most ubiquitous of these, most developers and designers would agree it is better not to rely on a plugin at all. Now thanks to HTML 5 and the browsers that implement its audio tag we can play audio natively within the browser.

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