Phones and HTML5?
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- boobs
Am I right in thinking all current phones (those made in the last 2 years?) have browsers that are display HTML5 properly?
- monNom0
I wouldn't count on it.
- monospaced0
All iPhones for sure.
- mekk0
Yes and no. They follow the rules but behave differently. For example none of them does display <video> like on the desktop. So still no big background video on mobile yet. In the moment you start a video embedded with the new tag the OS's player kicks in.
- That's not such a big issue, but no ability to autoplay does put a spanner in the works.Nathan_Adams
- ....and stops some VERY annoying sites from existing...Projectile
- chrisRG0
Depends on what you call or use as HTML5, not even canvas is well supported yet and performance is usually a concern
- Hombre_Lobo0
^that's what I was going to say.
HTML5 markup and advanced html5 animation and interaction are different.- Not my posts are in chunks because qbn blocks the use of 'half way' as one word. I was debugging!Hombre_Lobo
- Hombre_Lobo0
I would say yes to your question in terms of html5 markup being supported. Adding html5shiv won't do any harm in adding a fall back for ie (and I think other browsers not capable of supporting html5 markup).
- Hombre_Lobo0
But in terms of complex animation and interaction, I've seen very few that have good performance, and I guess the ones I did say required a huge amount of work. Flash would be a great alternative here if supported in IOS given its decent performance. But alas.
- Hombre_Lobo0
This is a good example of one that works well -
http://makeyourmoneymatter.org/
- Hombre_Lobo0
On nexus 4 it ran decent. iPad 2 was ok, but breaks half way down, but iPad 2 is hardly current gen.
- dbloc0
never assume.
