Apple's HTML5 showcase

how can i update my adobe flash

Digital publishing starts now:
http://bhlog.com/posts/2010/6/18/html5-the-webs-pagemaker.html

I usually disagree with you, but here I totally agree. I'm a designer and know coding somewhat, and there's a dept of 30 flash guys upstairs from me at a big ad agency. Our careers have been learning these tools. I'm okay to switch standards and leave behind the bad stuff. But where are my new tools? That's why I agree. this is just before it's time, which is totally apples style, I dig. But mr Jobs, give me some good artistic tools (not pure code) to make stuff and I'm fully on-board. I just finished three of my own sites I've been working on for years, now no idevice can see them!? sent from my iPhone

User agent checker is lame. Chrome at the very least should be able to display most of this, but Apple putting in the checker makes it seem like it can't. Also, as has been pointed out HTML5 is not anywhere near being an approved standard, and as much as Jobs would love it, Apple can't just decide what is and isn't a standard.

That being said, the demos are pretty nice and really show what is possible with HTML5. I can't wait for the time when plugins are mostly unnecessary in the consumer space, and all that is needed is just a browser. But like others have said, HTML5 is the future, and we live in the present. Right now, plugins like Flash and Silverlight are needed. I really think Google has the best approach here. Chrome supports HTML5 extremely well and Google continues to show what it is capable of doing. But they also have a close relationship with Adobe to make Flash work as well as possible in Chrome and even has features to help blunt some of its problems (like isolating tabs into processes so if one tab crashes the browser itself doesn't crash). That is the way to do it IMO and I wish Apple would work the same way.

Also, anyone else LOL at the plugins aren't the web jab, when even still you need a QuickTime plugin for the majority of the video on Apple's website?

@Mike at 11:31AM
"All these things are set in stone by W3C, and it's up to the vendors (like Apple, Mozilla, and Microsoft) to actually support them. Currently, Apple is just ahead of the game."

[citation needed]

"Ian Hickson, editor of the HTML5 specification, expects the specification to reach the W3C Candidate Recommendation stage during 2012"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HTML5

Apple is just trying to define the web standards as being whatever the frak they want it to be, just like Microsoft did in the 90's. Welcome BACK to the wonderful world of browser-checking and writing code for every possible proprietary invocation of HTML any big company wants to try and push out.

The only way to make the Web usable is to use a Flash blocker. I can't use a Flash blocker on an iPad or iPhone. Thus, I am eternally grateful to Apple for not allowing Flash there. It's one of the best features of Mobile Safari.

still no full-screen video. meh.

All of your comparisons of how Apple has always innovated and wants to give users the best experience are not valid when we're talking about the internet. If Apple wants to tightly control a user's experience on their OS, that's great, but we're talking about the internet - a medium that is consumed on more operating systems and devices than Apple can control. And yet they are trying to control the direction the internet goes in so the experience on their devices is the best.

The internet is bigger than Apple and the power should always be with the user to choose how they want to consume content.

The video demo crashed Safari right off the bat. All arguments aside about whether a standard is a standard if only one browser supports it, flash can do all this right now (and far more) on all browsers and it will a year from now as well. That can't be said for HTML5.

The bottom line is the user should be able to choose how they consume their content and not be handicapped by what Apple thinks is best for the user.

This is how Apple rolls. They make tough cuts that move the industry forward. For some it stings at first. But then it gets better. In the end we're all better off. If it weren't for Apple we would probably still see floppy drives and parallel ports.