A Blog From Behind the Trenches

Background: Apple's new "HTML5 Showcase" is raising a few questions from Opera users (and others), so I thought I'd address them here.

Apple claim to promote HTML5 and an open Web, but the page uses browser sniffing to block other browsers, vendor prefixes for the CSS3 stuff they are using (even if other browsers support border-radius it won't work because it's coded using -webkit-border-radius), and the patent-encumbered H.264 for video.

In fact, it seems that the only things that are HTML5 on that page are HTML5 audio and video.

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Microsoft's new Get the facts has a strange smell to it. It's almost like it smells... old and stale.

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