June 5, 2010

Apple and HTML5∞

Horrible and dishonest webpage by Apple pushing HTML5—whoops, pushing Safari, because Apple blocks any browser other than Safari from viewing the demos.

Those features are really cool, but they work on quite a few browsers.  Firefox, for one.  And Chrome, which is built on WebKit, the same rendering engine as Safari.

How ironic is it that they claim that only Safari can render these demos that are supposedly being used to showcase new web standards and interoperability?

Here’s a tip, guys: http://www.modernizr.com.  If you’re going to prevent people from seeing the demos, do it based on which features of HTML5 and CSS3 their browser actually supports, not which browser they’re using.

February 1, 2010

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Lack of Flash in the iPad (and before that, in the iPhone) is a win for accessible, standards-based design.

— Jeffrey Zeldman, Flash, iPad, Standards