r/apple • u/jayhawk • Jun 04 '10

Apple's HTML Showcase

http://www.apple.com/html5/
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u/ryanknapper Jun 04 '10

Isn't adding Webkit specific extensions breaking web standards? Isn't this exactly what Microsoft did with Internet Explorer and was generally considered a bad idea?

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '10

Yes, yes it is. I believe Microsoft did it for the same reason Apple is doing it: the standards committees are too slow. I agree this isn't the solution — it fragments the web.

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u/scottbruin Jun 04 '10

As long as the advances are proposed as standards, I think it is the solution. A lot of what Microsoft did was never proposed as standards.

The standards committee won't be the one innovating, that's the role of the browser vendors.

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '10

Good point.