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Apple's cheats to showcase Safari's HTML5

• tptacek 16y ago
  Which technologies that Apple is showcasing on this page are unavailable, in principal or practice, to Firefox and Chrome? Because if all they're doing is showing how you can get 80% of what Flash would give an iPhone app using HTML5, then the fact that they're blocking Firefox is irrelevant. Firefox and Chrome users don't need to be sold on HTML5. We'd be getting upset about browsers being blocked from... an advertisement. On the other hand, if they're showcasing concepts that can only work in Safari, then they are indeed doing what Microsoft did in the '90s: attempting to "embrace and extend" the HTML5 standard by setting expectations that can only be met using Apple's nonstandard technology. I would be surprised to find out that Apple is doing the latter. Their efforts with HTML5 have seemed to be in good faith.
  • gte910h 16y ago
    >Which technologies that Apple is showcasing on this page are unavailable, in principal or practice, to Firefox and Chrome? Then they're not really supported HTML5 features, they're just safari features, and should be removed from the showcase.
    • tptacek 16y ago
      Why yes, that is a more concise way of saying the same thing I said. Thanks!
      • gte910h 16y ago
        You're welcome. I couldn't tell we were saying the same thing.
    • easp 16y ago
      Well, webkit features.
  • w3matter 16y ago
    I clicked through a couple of times, and was able to run everything in Chrome.
• upinsmoke 16y ago
  I get 113 out of 160 on my Safari browser from html5test.com.
• douglasputnam 16y ago
  The title to this post is intentionally misleading and sensational. Using the word "cheats" is cheating and trolling.