HTML5 Video Background

It is also important to add a video background to your html pages. Many codes and scripts do it for you, but in this post I want to introduce one of them which supports not only html video backgrounds, bu also swf flash and image background.

HTML5 Video Background

HTML5 Video

The HTML5 draft specification introduced the video element for the purpose of playing videos or movies,^[1] partially replacing the object element. HTML5 video is intended by its creators to become the new standard way to show video on the web without plugins, but has been hampered by lack of agreement as to which video formats should be supported in web browsers.

HTML5 New APIs

In addition to specifying markup, HTML5 specifies scripting application programming interfaces (APIs) that can be used with JavaScript.^[36] Existing document object model (DOM) interfaces are extended and de facto features documented. There are also new APIs, such as:

Introduction to HTML5

HTML5 is a markup language used for structuring and presenting content for the World Wide Web and a core technology of the Internet. It is the fifth revision of the HTML standard (created in 1990 and standardized as HTML 4 as of 1997)^[2] and, as of December 2012, is a candidate recommendation of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).^[3] Its core aims have been to improve the language with support for the latest multimedia while keeping it easily readable by humans and consistently understood by computers and devices (web browsers, parsers, etc.). HTML5 is intended to subsume not only HTML 4, but also XHTML 1 and DOM Level 2 HTML.^[2]