Apple's HTML5 and Standards Gallery Not Standard 527
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)."
Re:Standards and "Standards" (Score:5, Funny)
Apple is Microsoft 2.0
When they hit Microsoft 3.1, they will have finally achieved a usable level of evilness.
Its Apple (Score:2, Funny)
Once again Slashdot jumps to conclusions. The showcase is to promote Safari not web standards. The way the write up reads is that these are the web standards, and these are what they can do. Its blatant in the second paragraph, "The demos below show how the latest version of Apple’s Safari web browser, new Macs, and new Apple mobile devices all support the capabilities of HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript." that they are promoting Safari and not web standards. This our toy and this is why it works better then yours is the message. Its Apple. If Apple were not so full of themselves all the time I'd think they were not following their mission statement. Showing me web standards that no one has implemented yet and only works on your browser is akin to giving me a 100 GHz processor writing a really graphics heavy OS (that only you sell), and has no application base, when the rest of the world has Windows 3.1.
Re:It works in Safari... (Score:3, Funny)
Which in turn was given to us by an Apple engineer with a time machine.
Take that, causality!
Re:A hard choice (Score:5, Funny)
They should have made a demo in Flash so everyone could see it.
IE5 (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Standards and "Standards" (Score:2, Funny)
Well Microsoft is also irrelevant.
Hating Microsoft today is like hating Prussia.
Re:Standards and "Standards" (Score:4, Funny)
Re:A hard choice (Score:3, Funny)
I know, I know! Let's write an HTML5 renderer in Flash!