Let Me See! - Apple's HTML5 page
Today I was browsing the Internet I was looking through the HTML5 section of the Apple site http://www.apple.com/html5/. For people who don’t already know HTML5 is the new revision of HTML with a lot of major changes, it is still under development but some features of HTML5 can be used in some modern browsers. I figured that since I was using Firefox 3.6 (a modern day browser) I would be able to have access to the HTML5 examples that they had produced. When I clicked on an example what followed was this pop-up telling me that I had to download Safari to view the HTML5 examples.
I remembered in April of this year Steve jobs released an article on the Apple website titled ‘Thoughts on Flash’. Basically this article was about why Apple didn’t want to use Flash for there Apple products. Steve points out how, “we strongly believe that all standards pertaining to the web should be open. As an alternative to Flash, Apple has adopted the HTML5 and CSS, which are all open standards”. It raved on about the open standards and HTML5. So why is Apple telling me to download Safari? Is it really because the demo is designed with the latest web standards like the pop up suggest? I’m pretty sure that the latest versions of Firefox and Chrome do too. I know for a fact that they both support video and audio, which are 2 examples on the Apple HTML5 page. Instead of displaying this message to browsers that are not Safari why not first check if the browser actually supports the feature instead of giving us the plug to download the latest version of Safari? Come on Apple, HTML5 is supposed to be there for everyone to use and see, no matter what modern day browser the user is using, what happened to being all for open web standards? The examples on the website are quite cool. Why not just let everyone see the awesome HTML5 examples? It would probably be better in this case than promoting your product and getting the user to download Safari.
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