New Apple team sets out to produce HTML5 websites
updated 12:05 pm EDT, Wed September 29, 2010
iPhone, iPad support an important focus
Apple has assembled a "creative technology team" to produce HTML5 content for its website, a fresh job listing indicates. The company is specifically seeking a manager for the team, who will "be responsible for driving web-standard (HTML5) innovation that enhances and redefines the marketing of Apple's products and services to millions of consumers." The job should also involve "exploring opportunities with apple.com, email and mobile/multi-touch experiences on the iPhone and iPad."
Part of the team's work will center on creating prototypes of HTML5 pages to test ideas. AppleInsider notes that the company has been gradually rolling out the standard throughout more of its website during the past few months. Visitors can for instance compare Macs, get showtimes in the movie trailer section, or visit a promotional page showing off various concepts. Apple is one of the strongest proponents of HTML5, as the company's iOS devices are incapable of running the most popular alternative, Flash.
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AppleInsider notes that the company has been gradually rolling out the standard throughout more of its website during the past few months.
Nothing wrong with standards. Standards are good and all, right.
Visitors can for instance compare Macs, get showtimes in the movie trailer section, or visit a promotional page showing off various concepts.
And what part of the HTML5 standard states you need all this cruft and clutter? Oh, right, it doesn't. It's just another bunch of people thinking that since you CAN do something, you MUST do it. Whatever happened to good, easy, clean, simple web-sites? Why do we need whiz-bang this and whacked-out that? You could compare macs without HTML5. It would be easy. It's just HTML5 allows them to add all sorts of stuff you can overuse until you end up looking like, well, MacNN. (And that's MacNN without an ad-blocker and with Flash. Now that is scary, people!).
Apple is one of the strongest proponents of HTML5, as the company's iOS devices are incapable of running the most popular alternative, Flash.
And, just to point it out again, HTML5 has nothing to do with the above, and, in fact, has nothing to do with Flash. Flash is not an 'alternative'. It's an option. You can have an HTML5 web-site that utilizes flash. Just like you can have a good web sites that use Flash but not HTML5.