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Title: No, really, wait, what?
Post by: Arantor on December 21st, 2010, 11:40 PM

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/12/21/microsoft_unveils_html5_labs/

This is an interesting concept. I don't just mean the nature of the article, HTML5 Labs, I mean the whole U-turn MS has been doing in favour of actually following standards.

Title: Re: No, really, wait, what?
Post by: JBlaze on December 22nd, 2010, 03:38 AM

The day MS decides to follow convention and standards, I will shit brix.

Title: Re: No, really, wait, what?
Post by: Arantor on December 22nd, 2010, 03:51 AM

Some of the best things occurred *because* of not following standards... the underpinning of AJAX was conceived by MS as a non standard extension in IE6 for example.

But there is a message here - they are trying to get better at the whole standards thing.

Title: Re: No, really, wait, what?
Post by: Nao on January 13th, 2011, 07:58 AM

"By clearly separating prototype implementations from mainstream browser product ones, we can avoid many negative consequences."

--> Yeah... Can they quote at least ONE mainstream website that uses 'prototype implementations' such as WebSockets or IndexedDB? Nope? Then they might as well shut up... ::)

Title: Re: No, really, wait, what?
Post by: Arantor on January 13th, 2011, 08:36 PM

The only mainstream site I've even seen making obvious use of HTML5 is YouTube, and even that appears to have backtracked.

(In other news, Chrome is going to be dropping H.264 support soon, which will devalue <video> even more :()