In the same way that one clever fellow set up a website filled with scraps of programming which require a seriously high level of JavaScript power, thus preventing browsers other than Chrome from using them...
...Apple has done something along the same lines and simultaneously had an indirect dig at Adobe Flash, by releasing onto their official website a range of programming scraps which require heavy HTML5 support:
Apple is being incredulously childish on so many levels. They're more or less eliminating the requirement of Flash on any Apple device and that leaves Adobe standing in the cold. And that's not a particularly respectable thing to do.
And as aforementioned, this is little more than a clone of Chrome's showcase, only with HTML5 instead of JavaScript. But I must say that after trying out the HTML5 showcase on my iPod Touch, Adobe and Chrome are just small compromises.
It works incredibly well despite Apple's monopolistic approach which does knock a bit of fun out of it because there's less freedom for the average end user, and it's worth mentioning that the Virtual Reality module doesn't work on Windows or Linux.
Here are the seven modules and what they do:
- Video: Shows you a video of a Tron Legacy trailer with dedicated buttons for pausing, playing, stopping, fastforwarding, rewinding, and player scaling. But there seems to be a serious lack of a volume slider...
- Text: Allows you to generate artistic text.
- Gallery: Allows you to flick thru photos.
- Transitions: Slide through a range of photos using five different examples of stylish transitions which can be achieved between digital elements under a HTML5 module.
- Audio: Does what it says on the tin; plays audio.
- 360: Also does what it says on the tin; allows 360-degress rotation of an embedded graphical element.
- VR: Also known as virtual reality, this application currently allows a Street View-esque three-dimensional image of a certain place. In Apple's example, it's the Apple Store in New York City.
See here for a few snapshots of these HTML5 modules working on an iPod Touch.
1 comments:
It's great for all those, but what about games? I know jobs want you to play iPhone apps bought from his shop but they can't just discontinue web games. I know Apple aren't going to change the web, but if they're changing the format for videos, they need to press the whole web. They can't monopolise the web like they do with their devices.
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