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Apple's HTML5 and Standards Gallery Not Standard

Posted by Soulskill on from the par-for-the-course dept.

snitch writes "Apple has created an HTML5 Showcase that presents its vision for the next generation of the WWW. The fact that this page is only accessible using the Safari browser, while Apple advocates about web standards, has caused many to criticize the company's lack of broader platform support. The showcase demonstrates several HTML5 capabilities and features that have to do with video, typography, transitions, audio, etc. Further, on the front page the company states that 'Standards aren't add-ons to the web. They are the web. And you can start using them today.' The latter statement falls short by the fact that the featured examples only work with the Safari browser, and in the case of the CSS 3D transforms demonstration, require Mac OS X Snow Leopard (Safari PC or plain Leopard won't do)."

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  1. Re:Chrome by Yo,dog! · · Score: -1, Redundant

    You - no offense - provide absolutely no insight to the matter, regardless of what the - no offense - dick moderators think. The title of the /. post reads "Standards Gallery Not Standard". The demos are viewable in other browsers, such as Chrome (where the demos mostly work), by going to the developer page. Asking users to download Safari has nothing to do with HTML5 standards but reflects currently how well supported the unratified HTML5 standard is across browsers. If HTML5 allows all the things Apple shows, what's wrong with asking users to download Safari if that's the only way currently to see the demos in their full glory?

  2. Re:Developer Link by Smurf · · Score: 0, Redundant

    BULLSHIT!

    http://developer.apple.com/safaridemos/typography.php

    You'll need to download Safari to view this demo.

    ...

    http://developer.apple.com/safaridemos/photo-transitions.php

    You'll need to download Safari to view this demo.

    ...

    Enough said.

    BULLSHIT!
    I was able to run both demos without any complaint whatsoever using the latest nightly build of Chromium for the Mac:

    http://img517.imageshack.us/img517/6917/screenshot02yl.jpg

    Of course I didn't change the User Agent (apparently you need an extension that I don't have for that).

    So, the problem may be that you are using an older version of a browser that still does not support these features.

    Enough said.

  3. Best NPOV summary of Apple ever by Jay+L · · Score: 0, Redundant

    That just bears repeating:

    Look, I really respect old Steve, I really do. He took a company on life support and brought them not only back from the dead, but back to the top of the heap. And I understand to a point why he wants to make everything only work the way he wants it to and that is because he wants to control the experience, so that everything "just works" the way he designed it. I get that. But what we have to be careful of is his "vision" polluting web standards so that the ONLY way to get the full web is HIS way. We have already been down that road with MSFT and IE6, just because old Steve is good at making iShiny doesn't mean we should head down that road again, okay?