# General Best Practices for Working with Web Media When I pitched my talk *Audio, Video & Elm: Best Practices for Multimedia*, I promised best practices. In the talk, I covered the most important ways to think about these practices, but I just ran out of time to cover many important ones. The practices enumerated below could be their own talk on their own, but they’re not Elm specific. I’ve therefore made this page to share them. ***Honestly, most of these principles can be summed up as "Just do what YouTube or Vimeo or SoundCloud do."*** Those companies do a great job with this stuff. In addition to the practice itself, I’ve included some info on how hard it is to do in Elm and some hints as to how to do so. I hope to start adding some Ellie examples once I get time. --- # Agent Instructions: Querying This Documentation If you need additional information that is not directly available in this page, you can query the documentation dynamically by asking a question. Perform an HTTP GET request on the current page URL with the `ask` query parameter: ``` GET https://danabrams.gitbook.io/av-best-practices/master.md?ask= ``` The question should be specific, self-contained, and written in natural language. The response will contain a direct answer to the question and relevant excerpts and sources from the documentation. Use this mechanism when the answer is not explicitly present in the current page, you need clarification or additional context, or you want to retrieve related documentation sections.