Steve Jobs is pushing HTML5 over flash and apple has a site to let you see what HTML5 can do IF you have Apple’s Safari browser. The site will not let any other browser access the demos. Even browsers like Chrome that do better with HTML5 than Safari.
According to HTML5test.com, a Web site set up to evaluate the extent to which Web browsers support HTML5 elements, Safari (4.05) scored of 115 out of 160.
Google Chrome (6.0.442.0) scored 142 out of 160 (the stable channel 5.0 version may be less). Firefox (3.6.3) scored 101.
Opera scores 102 and IE8 gets a whopping 19(I haven’t used IE8 much and it may not have all the bells and whistles added).
what’s odd about the site is that Jobs is pushing HTML5 to replace Flash claiming that it’s better on more browsers.
The Register does an even better job of dissing Jobs. ‘It’s open. But it only works with Safari’
Opera Software man Haavard Moen is not amused. “When the page doesn’t work in Opera or other browsers it isn’t because these browsers don’t support HTML5,” he blogged. “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.”
According to Moen, it seems that the only parts of HTML5 in the showcase are the spec’s
Mike Shaver, chief technology officer with Mozilla, the open-source operation that builds Safari-rival Firefox, was less diplomatic on Twitter. “Having difficulty suppressing my contempt for Apple’s arrogant and ridiculous HTML5 positioning today,” he said.
Meanwhile. Adobe Software was quick to pick up on the ballsy irony of it all. John Nack, Photoshop product manager, Tweeted: “A Web standards demo that doesn’t work across browsers reminds me of lame, counterproductive Flash Player demos.”
Speaking of browser speed(s):
This “competition” video (found on the gunblog named – appropriately – The Firearms Blog) is an amusing-yet-convincing demo of quickness.
The spud gun, for instance, gets beaten by more than half – the flying fries-to-be are barely out of the slicer and just passing the screen when Chrome pops up the display.
What was that again, about the “instant-on” ability of the iPad’s on-board display? Does that have something to do with Safari – or am I making an Apples-to-potatoes comparison, here?…
apple to potatoes….
The iPad uses the iPhone os. So instant power on and off. And all os functions are nearly instantaneous. Slow downs can occur when an internet connection is sketchy. Both Safari and Chrome use Apple’s open source webkit api.