Comments on: Please Don’t Screw Up HTML 5

By: fun games for kids

fun games for kids — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 03:03:18 +0000

Hahaha.. I like this one. Firefox rocks, I mean the plugins rocks :)

IE is a big pain for web developer…

By: j_chi

j_chi — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 18:12:50 +0000

If html5 is developed with a plug-in option then it won’t be held back by any one browser holdout. So if firefox / chrome bake the standard into their browser and ie / safari don’t users could just add the html5 plug-in to those other browsers. Thereby having the same user experience across all platforms as java does now. This should also speed up adoption significantly.

Just an idea.

By: Michael Lankton

Michael Lankton — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 14:31:50 +0000

The job of a web browser is to render html into something that we can read. There are standards for the various flavors of html, and web designers make their pages based on these standards. If your web browser does not comply to the html standard, you are not seeing what the web designer intended you to see.
Therefore, yes IE is crap. It is not standards compliant. Much of the web is broken in IE. Everyone would be much better off using a Mozilla or Webkit-based browser, and there are many to choose from.

By: notboss

notboss — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 11:10:54 +0000

You wrote: “People in the workplace are still going to be screwed.”

Not really. Some employees aren’t supposed to be watching video on their secure corporate machines, but many others have Flash at work and can watch video. Adobe licensed the right to decode H.264 in Flash so H.264 has become something of a Web standard for high quality video despite its cost. Something like 80% of (non-mobile) Web video is displayed in Flash. And it works reasonably well across operating systems and very well on Windows. HTML 5 is a great idea, but why bash Flash while we wait to see what Microsoft and others do with the HTML 5 draft proposal? The evolution of the Web isn’t a winner-take-all sporting event. It’s not like the desktop operating system market of the 80 and 90s.

By: Best CSS Gallery

Best CSS Gallery — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 08:55:37 +0000

I asume you don’t like Flash at all :)

By: Free XBox 360 Elite

Free XBox 360 Elite — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 07:10:35 +0000

So in order to get the best web experience we need to stop using IE and switch to Firefox?

By: Michael Lankton

Michael Lankton — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 00:25:57 +0000

Exactly, and a big oversight on my part. IE8 is not supposed to support the video tag, and why would they?

People in the workplace are still going to be screwed, whether Mozilla and Webkit are standards compliant or not, because most of them will be stuck with IE.

By: notboss

notboss — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 22:32:22 +0000

You wrote: “Maybe you’re using a computer you don’t own or have the ability to install software on… What if the site you need to get on requires Flash and you don’t have it?”

It is much more likely in a corporate or other institutional environments that you will be using IE with Flash than Firefox 3.5 or Safari. That’s just the way it is.

Asking people not to author in Flash isn’t going to make a difference as long as HTML 5 is not available on the vast majority of installed browsers. On the other hand, if you can convince Microsoft to implement HTML 5 in their next browser, that would make a big difference about five years after they finally release it.

By: Christopher

Christopher — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 16:01:49 +0000

Aww, noooo