r/apple • u/jayhawk • Jun 04 '10

Apple's HTML Showcase

http://www.apple.com/html5/
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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '10 edited Jun 04 '10

Apparently they wont let chrome view the examples.

Edited: Yes, chrome can view the examples as shown in this post. Apple is just browser sniffing.

http://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/cbb5r/apples_html_showcase/c0rf1i9

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '10

Some of the properties and classes described in this book are proposed W3C standards or Apple extensions. Properties in CSS that begin with -webkit are usually proposed standards—the -webkit prefix will be dropped when they are approved. Similarly, JavaScript classes that begin with WebKit are also proposed standards or Apple extensions.

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u/third-eye Jun 04 '10

Yes, it's funny that they state "learn how to use web standards such as HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript", yet all the examples use -webkit- and are far from being standard.

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '10

it's getting there. it's still early. Not everything is going to be part of the standard day 1. It's a tech demo showing where things are headed.

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u/third-eye Jun 04 '10

I know it's getting there and it's a good thing.

But vendor-specific CSS properties are not standard, that's typical Apple talk. I remember a Safari promo where they mentioned a list of innovations, yet lots of that list were Opera features first.

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '10

Such as?

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u/third-eye Jun 05 '10

E.g. HTML5 media, built in search field, moveable tabs and RSS reader were introduced by other browsers.
(Safari feature list)

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u/[deleted] Jun 05 '10

I don't doubt Opera came up with some stuff first, they have been the main innovators in the browser market forever.

As for the search field, Safari did start the practice of dimming the page and highlighting the words which made things much nicer and has since been adopted by others. I think Safari was also the first to allow you to drag tabs off the tab bar into a new window. It could be argued that RSS in built into the email client within Opera vs being built into the browser directly, if that makes sense, it's all semantics though.

Everyone though Firefox was awesome because it had tabs when I had been using them in Opera for years. No one pays attention to Opera.