Apple launches HTML5 advocacy site

By on Jun 4, 2010 at 1:12 AM
General June 4, 2010

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Did you think Apple was going to sit around and do nothing while Adobe runs its We <3 Flash ad campaign? Then clearly you don’t know Apple. A few moments ago the company launched a new website that touts the benefits of hopping aboard the HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript express as it barrels towards the front lines of the war between Apple and Adobe. We actually think the site isn’t all that bad and will show a lot of people things that they’d never have guessed HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript were capable of doing, but… Well, we don’t want to ruin the surprise for you. Click on through to find out what happens why you try to play around with the demos while using a browser other than one thats name starts with the letter “S”.

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UPDATE: Because you asked, here’s what the pages look like in Safari.

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  • Worked For Me

    the joke is that as an end-user, I’m going to end up with ALL these plugins anyway… I could sit here and talk crap about Flash all damn day, in the end, I’m still going to need it along with the rest. Stupid trying to get consumers to choose sides when the consumer HAS to choose ALL sides. Apple AND Adobe need to go fuck themselves and fuck each other.

    • the Goat

      Now that youtube has html5 for videos I get by just fine without flash. I use a flash blocker plugin for chrome. I can’t remember the last time I had to disable the plugin to view a site I just had to read. Maybe once a month I will click a link from a friend that doesn’t work because I have flash blacked. But I don’t feel like I’m missing much.

      note: I have no love for apple and I think their motives behind not supporting flash are impure.

      • MikeD

        Who cares if it pure. Name one for profit tech company that has pure intent?

  • the Goat

    There is an easy work around to view the demos in a browser other than safari. Click on “Developers: learn how to do it yourself.” Then select which demo you want to see and then click “view demo”.

    Most of the demos work in chrome. The video wouldn’t play. The VR demo wouldn’t even try and run. Some of the transitions don’t work right (I’m guessing). I didn’t try the audio demo.

    • rumanchu

      The VR demo doesn’t even work in the latest Safari release for Windows, so…

  • Fastwalking

    So, now it is clear. Mr. Jobs isn’t some great saviour trying to ensure a brilliant and perfect internet experience for the end user. Nor is he really all that concerned with “flash” slowing down his iPhone. It’s all about forcing people to use Safari. So there are how many million iphone and ipad users out there? Force them all to convert to Safari – then migrate them to Macs.

    What a bunch of serf serving a$$holes these people are (especially Jobs, who tried to convince us he was just trying to do the “right” thing)– Apple Google and Microsoft – and I suppose the rest are no better.

    • Derek

      You’re right. I have a mac mini and an iphone and love both, but I absolutely hate steve jobs with a passion.

  • MonkeyCheese

    “You’ll need to download Safari to view this demo.”

    uumm no thanks

  • jonathan

    Nice, just tried it on safari iPhone. Still nicer to have flash too though.

    Posted from BGR Mobile (iPhone).

  • http://www.absolutefiction.com Rono

    They’ve been trying to push Safari down our throats for month now. Every chance they get: you download iTunes and the Safari checkbox is already checked. lol

    Good luck Apple.
    HTML5 is down the road for everyone anyway, stop trying to convince us that Flash is not.

  • senshikaze

    i use linux and that is basically apple telling to go f-ck myself.

    well screw you to apple!

  • MikeD

    Okay enough of the hate.

    Graphic designers speak up: The VM Layout was nice. You’d think it was created in Photoshop. What’s most impressive is the fact that the text in the layouts are fully searchable. Yep including that big “VM” the image is in.

    I want to know what HTML 5 tools were used to create it.

    All of it ran smooth on my old 17″ G4 Powerbook without a hitch. Flash would have crawled on this old thing. Its Obvious HTML 5 is very efficient.

    • MikeD

      The only demo I couldn’t run on my G4 Laptop was the VR test. But it did work smooth as silk on my iPhone 3G.

      I am impressed but I need to see more.

      • MikeD

        Figured out how to get the VR test to work. Just download the latest Webkit nightly build. The VR test works silky smooth on my G5 tower now.

        Its still very early buy it does seem to have potential. Now to test it out on my windows PC’s

    • Electrofreak

      You guys still aren’t understanding the fact that Flash has run crappy on Mac hardware because Apple never released the API for Flash software to enable hardware acceleration support like Windows has had for years. They finally released it just recently, and Adobe has it working in a beta build.

      Last I checked, Flash with hardware support outperforms HTML5 and it’s native hardware support currently.

      It may change, but Flash 10.1 is coming in a few weeks and carries a fair few more optimizations as well.

      So it’s not so much the “enough of the hate” and more like “not enough of reality” that needs to be addressed here.

      • MikeD

        I think both technologies are good. But Flash has been from the ground up a desktop class application. If they can be truly sensitive to low power requirement devices then I am all for it. Maybe if the people actually complained, Adobe wouldn’t have been caught flat footed. The it was all fine resistance from the start was the hate. Nobody wanted to admit Apple/Steve Jobs was right. Until recently Adobe admitted, but that was only when they finally had something to show for it.

        Flash 10.1 is going to be their first real shot at a mobile flash plug in. It will still be closed and proprietary. While HTML 5 strives to be open. If everybody is so hot on being open why aren’t they telling Adobe to let Flash go and let it be an HTML 5 open standard. They only need to make the tools.

        Just like Linux fans and Android fans want an open. I am looking forward to an open non plugin browser world. And Safari neither flash can control that.

  • Freddy.O

    The fact that they want you to download Safari to view the demos, discredits the advantages of HTML5 in my eyes. If it’s so damn great, it would work in any platform, this is just another attempt to create more Apple product consumer drones.

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