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Apple's HTML5 and Standards Gallery Not Standard

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 suso · · Score: 1, Troll

    (remember the good old days when large numbers of sites would shriek for IE; but render just fine if FF was set to IE's UA string?)

    The good old days? Oh, I see, you mean 5 years ago. I thought you were talking about the ancientweb when Netscape roamed the net and sites held out signs like "Explorers only, we don't serve nomads here".

  2. Re:Apple's just pushing existing standards by indi0144 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Opps you badmouthed Apple. I can foresee my future karma hell for the mere reason of talking straight about Apple.. as if I care.

    I got to /. so I can learn about open source, is this forum turned out to be a chapel for Apple? Everyday I see more articles about Apple than about open source. Anyone knows a good site free of stupid fanboyism where I can learn and get news about open source world?

    Oh oh oh and don't forget the /. ghost! he will DELETE your post when moderation is not effective in hiding what you say.

    In distopian slashdot the memo better gets you.

  3. Re:Shows why HTML5 is not ready to replace flash by indi0144 · · Score: 0, Troll

    Don't bring rational arguments on this discussion Apple's HTML5 is magical, you don't need to know anything else dude. That stupid designers and their kerning

  4. Learning from Bill Gates by LynnwoodRooster · · Score: 1, Troll

    Embrace and Extend...

    --
    Browsing at +1 - no ACs, I ignore their posts. So refreshing!
  5. Re:Chrome by carlhaagen · · Score: 0, Troll

    You are - no offense - too busy up the ass of "political correctness on the web" to realize what this showcase is about. It's a showcase for HTML5, meant to look good, to show what HTML5 is capable of. Why ever would they want HTML5 to look bad by having these demos run on one of the other browsers that so far haven't caught up the point Safari/WebKit has with implementing HTML5? How would this work in favor of the HTML5 cause? Not one bit in these demos use vendor-specific hacks. It's all parts of what the W3C has specified for HTML5.

  6. Re:Chrome by E+IS+mC(Square) · · Score: 0, Troll

    How about you fuck off from here and go back to applefanbois.com?