Last week I did a post about Apple’s new HTML5 showcase page. While the page showcases some dazzling things, it has also caused a few angry responses from Apple competitors…like Adobe, Mozilla and Opera. Why? Because according to them, the page actually does little involving HTML5 and blocks out all other browsers except Safari.
Here are a few of the complaints:
From Opera – “When the page doesn’t work in Opera or other browsers it isn’t because these browsers don’t support HTML5, it’s because Apple uses browser sniffing and vendor prefixes, and in addition to that they aren’t really testing a lot of HTML5 at all. Most of their demos seem to have got nothing to do with HTML5, as a matter of fact”.
From Mozilla – “Having difficulty suppressing my contempt for Apple’s arrogant and ridiculous HTML5 positioning today”.
And from Adobe, with a sense of humor – “A Web standards demo that doesn’t work across browsers reminds me of lame, counterproductive Flash Player demos”.
Oh well, maybe one day HTML5 will bring us all rainbows and puppies.
I vote for Adobe’s response being the best of the three. They make the point clearly and concisely. It’s too bad Apple has to resort to deceiving the public.
Meh. I’m not sure what all the outrage is about. Much ado about nothing, say I.
Apple quite clearly and boldly states on their HTML 5 Demo page that “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. …”
As a long time Adobe software user, I have to say Adobe has little room to talk, all things considered. Flash is ubiquitous, but ubiquity does not a web standard make.