Extract from Sitepoint article “Build a Media Player with HTML” by Guilherme Muller
The possibilities for media in HTML have taken off with the introduction of the video and audio elements in HTML5. Now we can embed video and audio in websites without the need for proprietary technologies like Flash or Silverlight.
With browser support better than ever, and new technologies like WebVTT starting to arrive, now is a great time to get to know (or to revisit) these new HTML elements.
Learnable has just launched Getting Started with HTML Media, a course that gets you up to speed with HTML’s new media elements and how to take them to the next level with CSS and JavaScript.
Here’s a video from the course that gets the ball rolling, showing you how to structure the HTML code for a custom media player. (Later videos demonstrate how to build on this with CSS and JavaScript to create a fully functioning, custom media player.)