Apple Showcases HTML5 for the Masses
That slap-fight between Apple and Adobe over Flash? It's still going on.A new website showcasing the abilities of HTML5 would seem to indicate that Apple's campaign to entrench HTML5 in the hearts and minds of developers and consumers has been turned up to 11.The website covers just about every facet that a web developer could hope to throw at it, with examples of the competency that the web standard hands video, typography, audio, and why not, virtual reality. It goes without saying that the site is as slick as the rest of Apple's offerings. Not content to let the glossy content do the talking, Apple's PR team threw around a bit of good old fashion wordsmithing too:Every new Apple mobile device and every new Mac — along with the latest version of Apple’s Safari web browser — supports web standards including HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript. 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. And you can start using them today.Oh SNAP! "Standards aren’t add-ons to the web." They are the web? Apple is off the chain! You just know Flash is hanging out in the boy's bathroom and smoking cigarettes with his Plug-Ins possie, talking smack and planning their next move on Cupertino.What'll it be?A Flash site talking about HTML5's limitations?Will John Warnock and Charles Geschke go door to door with brownies to buy the love of consumers?Only time will tell.
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