Apple HTML5 showcase
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- raf0
I think they're doing a great job here. It is an open source project and if it can sail away into the future in a way that will make IE "old web" I won't mind at all.
BTW Firefox is still my main browser.
- formed0
This is almost enough for me to boycott Apple altogether. I'll wait until my coffee catches up with me, but this is hypocritical and bad business.
I am not going to change my business to satisfy Apple's need for a monopoly/dynasty.
I was looking forward to the new iPhone, but I think I'll keep an eye out for the Evo (or even W7 looks promising). I need something that is compatible with work we do for client's, not what some ego minded company decides is what the world should do.
Fine if you want to do things your own way, but when it has repercussions that affect every web development company, then you better think real hard about what and why.
- < Yep!mathinc
- go aheaderikjonsson
- are you fucking around? getting a little melodramatic?spifflink
- lol @ monopoly/dynasty
Is there a Jobs Jr?ukit
- Iggyboo0
I am impressed with their typography update in HTML5. SVG is slick. Nice, what is there not to like about html5!
- Stugoo0
wonderful updates. Its really nice to see what the browser can do and what HTML5 and css3 is capable of.... I really hope to see this as uniform across all devices and browsers in the next few years, I really do.
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The fact that you get hit with the 'you must have safari to view this site' is ridiculous.
'The demos below show how Apple’s Safari web browser supports the capabilities of web standards such as HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript.' - yeah if your using safari....The browser is powerful but the maximise button STILL does not fill the screen with the browser.
- Think months, not years. The browser wars are fierce!monospaced
- you don't understand how this worksacescence
- DrBombay0
Fuck Apple these days.
- pizzafire0
god. enough already. i want to see what HTML6 can do.
- ernexbcn0
I see many whiners around here
- nocomply0
But to be a little more constructive in my criticism, I would have no problem with this if Apple were to allow (even encourage) you to view these examples in other browsers so you can compare/contrast the capabilities of Safari with other web browsers out there.
Restricting freedom of choice to a single web browser is not "open, reliable, highly secure, and efficient."
- SteveJobs0
i like this:
"But soon other modern browsers will take advantage of these same web standards - and the amazing things they enable web *designers* to do."there you go guys, it's all yours!
- bogue0
Truthfully this feels like a step backwards from flash.... all of these demos that they're showing here have been possible for such a long time in flash. At the moment HTML 5 doesn't really feel like its pushing the medium ahead any further.
- acescence0
html5 is an emerging standard. the way these things are implemented are browser-specific until it becomes a standard. they can't just implement something and continually change it as the standard changes. mozilla has its own set of mozilla-specific rules, just like webkit. if moz built a demo of their html5 capabilities, it wouldn't work in safari either! get a grip people.
- acescence0
and it's not like it costs you a cent or are obligated to ever use it again.
- kpl0
WebKit is open source. It doesn't matter what "proprietary" thing Apple puts in there, because everyone will see what's in it. Mozilla is already getting plenty of inspiration from WebKit. (ie Jaegermonkey.)
But excluding other browsers is really, really dumb and undermines their point.
- ugh, wrong again. it's not "proprietary". it's an implementation of the standard, but it's browser-specific right nowacescence
- ..now. they couldn't provide a consistent experience for all browsers even if they wanted toacescence
- it's not dumb to promote your own sw over someone else's, especially since it comes with zero obligationacescence
- um, maybe that's why I have it in scare quotes?kpl
- SigDesign0
works on my iPed
- ukit0
F*ck you cheap bastards
Sent from my iPed
- welded0
What a bunch of cranky sons of bitches. Yes, it's myopic to expect developers to roll out Webkit-only features on a standard web site, but did you know that the iPhone and iPad don't support Flash? It's kind of gone under the radar, but it's true.
So how is it wrong for Apple to push the features those devices CAN support when those features compensate for a lot of the basic things Flash has traditionally been leveraged to do? Moreover, how is it wrong for Apple to prevent browsers that can't run the demos properly from trying? They'd just make a mess of it. Case in point, see the ostensibly web savvy original poster running Safari 3.
I'm not one of those death-to-Flash people, but I think a lot of people here are missing the point.