The object element in this example will only be exposed to browsers that don’t support the audio element.
Anything between the opening and closing tags that isn’t a source element will be exposed to browsers that don’t understand the audio element: The content model of the audio element supports this. Can you guess which browser I might be talking about? Internet Explorer and its ilk need to be spoon-fed audio files the old-fashioned way, via Flash. But there are some browsers that don’t support the audio element at all yet. The source element is a standalone-or “void”-element, so if you are using XHTML syntax, remember to include a trailing slash at the end of each tag.įalling back The ability to specify multiple source elements is very useful.
