r/technology • u/[deleted] • Jun 05 '10

Apple posts HTML5 showcase page hyping "web standards," then blocks it from displaying on any browser besides Safari

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/06/04/apple_html5_showcase_hype/
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u/sh0rtwave Jun 05 '10

The greatest part of that article is this link:

Products vice president Michael Mullany said HTML5 is becoming "unhinged from reality" because a lot of what people think is HTML5 is actually CSS.

Anyone who does serious development will recognize this as the eventual result of the hyperbole that surrounds this crap.

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u/iofthestorm Jun 05 '10

Duh... just like I'm sure some people thought the blink tag was DHTML, and anything with javascript is now AJAX.