In the play/pause toggle, we have a number of things to do: Our hand-rolled basic video player controls will have a play/pause toggle button and allow the user to scrub along the timeline of the video to skip to a specific section, as shown in Figure 4.3.įigure 4.4 Using XML entities to represent play and pause buttons.įor simplicity, I’ve included the button element as markup, but as we’re progressively enhancing our video controls, all of these additional elements (for play, pause, scrubbing, and so on) should be generated by the JavaScript. So if you want to style it your own way, it’s easy with just a bit of web standards knowledge-no need to edit an external Flash Player or similar. The best bit is that the UI will be all CSS and HTML. Our example won’t blow your mind-it isn’t nearly as sexy as the element itself (and is a little contrived!)-but you’ll get a good idea of what’s possible through scripting. In our example, we walk you through some of the ways to control the video element and create a simple set of controls. Using JavaScript and the new media API, you have complete control over your multimedia-at its simplest, this means that you can easily create and manage your own video player controls. Table 4.3 Media Attributes, Methods, and Events Table 4.3 provides a reference list of media attributes, methods, and events. Everything else is events and attributes. In fact, that’s all the methods on the media element. With that in mind, we’ll stick with the sexier media element: the element for our JavaScript discussion.Īs you saw at the start of this chapter, Anne van Kesteren has spoken about the new API and about the new simple methods such as play(), pause() (there’s no stop method: simply pause and move to the start), load(), and canPlayType(). The API’s events and methods are the same for both and. This subreddit is not endorsed or sponsored by Apple Inc.One truly spiffing aspect of the and media elements is that they come with a super easy JavaScript API. If you'd like to view their content together, click here.
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