Re: [Fed-Talk] HTML 5 Showcase & Case Study
Re: [Fed-Talk] HTML 5 Showcase & Case Study
- Subject: Re: [Fed-Talk] HTML 5 Showcase & Case Study
- From: "Blackmon Jerry (Contractor)" <email@hidden>
- Date: Mon, 7 Jun 2010 09:07:14 -0400
- Acceptlanguage: en-US
- Thread-topic: [Fed-Talk] HTML 5 Showcase & Case Study
Just to clear the air on this, I've been working with "HTML5" for probably a year now. The reason those demos don't work in anything other than Safari (aside from the shady redirect) is a CSS3 issue, it has very little to do with the HTML itself.
The demos Apple has on those pages make use of rendering engine-specific implementations of CSS3 extensions that are not yet part of the standard. In order to create them, you have to construct the CSS call as -webkit-transition- ... rather than a straight CSS call because the transitions and animations and such are implemented differently in each rendering engine. It's sort of like using a different programming language. You can do the same things in PHP that you can in Javascript, but you have to construct the functions in different ways using different parameters -- the calls themselves are not compatible even though the result is largely identical. If Apple had wanted to make these demos available in gecko, it could be very easily done by calling -moz-transition- ... .
I'm working on a web-based game that's targeted at WebKit, but right now a lot of the transitions and gradients and such are only visible in Firefox because I haven't added the -webkit lines to my CSS code. Doing so will be trivial, and updating the CSS to whatever the final standard turns out to be after CSS3 is finalized will be equally trivial.
Apple's not stopping anyone from making those demos available on Firefox, and it's transparently obvious why it's not exactly in Apple's interest to do so. Pity today's media doesn't bother to do any research before declaring the next great tech war a la iPhone v. Android. Gotta get those page views.
On Jun 6, 2010, at 2:54 PM, Montana wrote:
> To bad Apple isn't allowing other browsers access. Firefox 3.6 with html5
> parsing enabled via about:config can't view the links. Running on snow
> leopard. Seen some reports that some combo of linux and firefox can veiw
> some of the links. Bad form Apple.
>
> Cheers
> - Mark
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