Apple's cheeky HTML5 demo

[Jamesy]

Apple has raised the ire of rival web developers by creating an HTML5 showcase that can only be used in its own Safari browser.

Apple has been promoting HTML5 as an alternative to Adobe's Flash, as the two firms battle it over Apple's refusal to allow Flash to work on its iPhone and iPad.

On a website titled "HTML5 and Web Standards," Apple says: "These web standards are open, reliable, highly secure, and efficient. They allow web designers and developers to create advanced graphics, typography, animations, and transitions. Standards aren’t add-ons to the web. They are the web."


Let's not try to promote HTML5 by making it a walled garden, and let's not reduce HTML5 to a meaningless buzzword


While the site clearly focuses on HTML5, just two of the demos make use of that technology, showing off the video and audio tags. The demo for 360 degree photos uses JavaScript, while CSS is used for the gallery, transitions and virtual reality demo. A combination of CSS3 and SVG run the typography sample.

Haavard Moen, a software engineer rival browser maker Opera, notes on his blog that "most of their demos seem to have got nothing to do with HTML5".

Seems mighty cheeky to me to demonstrate html5 in such a closed way as this in order to fool the people who may not be up to speed with it all that apple are the only ones supporting HTML5. Especially when things such as this are quite apparent:

http://i.imgur.com/cT08B.png

links:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/06/04/apple_html5_showcase_hype/
http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/358477/rivals-slam-apples-html5-claims
http://my.opera.com/haavard/blog/2010/06/04/apple-html5

[W00TZEH]

Safari 5 may be announced tonight i think, should score better.

And firefox 3.7Beta gets 106/140

[xxMATTGxx]

Safari 5 may be announced tonight i think, should score better.

Maybe so but what's the answer to this:


While the site clearly focuses on HTML5, just two of the demos make use of that technology, showing off the video and audio tags. The demo for 360 degree photos uses JavaScript, while CSS is used for the gallery, transitions and virtual reality demo. A combination of CSS3 and SVG run the typography sample.

[MattFr]

The examples are crap HTML 5 anyway. I'll stick with Flash and develop for Android tyvm.

[hah]

i got 102 with opera

[myke]

113 on my Safari on a mbp o.o

Safari 5 would be cool.

html 5 looks cool.

[Moh]

They can't really call it HTML if it only works on safari?

Plus HTML is owned by W3C - which I don't think they would approve >;D

Plus theres's already something called Javascript.

[xxMATTGxx]

They can't really call it HTML if it only works on safari?

Plus HTML is owned by W3C - which I don't think they would approve >;D

Plus theres's already something called Javascript.

I think Apple are trying to be like "Oh look we have this HTML 5 showcase and only Safari support it" or something? Which is incorrect anyway. I don't get what you mean by there is already something called Javascript? We know there is.

The page is suppose to be about "HTML5" but not everything on the showcase is actually using it.



While the site clearly focuses on HTML5, just two of the demos make use of that technology, showing off the video and audio tags. The demo for 360 degree photos uses JavaScript, while CSS is used for the gallery, transitions and virtual reality demo. A combination of CSS3 and SVG run the typography sample.

[Moh]

Nearly everything "HTML5" does, can be done with javascript.

Doesn't most browsers support SVG now?

[GommeInc]

Got nothing to say, other than what is in Recursion's signature and directed at Apple. Good ol' false advertising, Apple have done it again :P

[Apolva]

I think the idea is to just demonstrate that you don't have to use flash (Apple's ongoing crusade which, for the record I still disagree with).

Reminds me of the "Plant a tree" site which was exclusive to IE.

[HotelUser]

Oh well. I'm sure it's going to display HTML5 better then IE :P

[Recursion]

Got nothing to say, other than what is in Recursion's signature and directed at Apple. Good ol' false advertising, Apple have done it again :P

QFT xD

[Recursion]

Sorry for double post, pls merge.


Oh well. I'm sure it's going to display HTML5 better then IE :P

Go check out IE9 (http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/), it's only just in Alpha and their sudden increase in standards comformance is incredible.

[HotelUser]

If it runs my javascript on the first shot then I'll like it :)


Sorry for double post, pls merge.



Go check out IE9 (http://ie.microsoft.com/testdrive/), it's only just in Alpha and their sudden increase in standards comformance is incredible.