On Thu, 29 Sep 2011 16:24:54 +1000, Scott Ferguson wrote: > On 28/09/11 21:25, � wrote:
(...) >>>> <joke mode on> >>>> >>>> Ah, Scott, Scott... the web turns into a lonely place when you can't >>>> play "Angry Birds" online and you need an html5 based browser to >>>> launch those softy balls of feather to destroy the green pig houses. >>>> >>>> </joke mode off> >>>> >>>> Greetings, (from the land of "html5", where the "canvas" element >>>> lies...) > > Are you serious? Maybe you should warn the w3.org they need to update > their documentation? Serious about what? >>> "Angry Birds" belongs in the same bucket as Silverlight and >>> Fffacebook. >> >> How can be that? AB is a game, SL is a plugin and FB is a social >> network. > > I have a special (Circular Repurposing And Purging) bucket, (for all > types of rubbish), like Facebook, Silverlight, and Angry Birds, there's > even copies of MS Vista and ME in there. Consider enlarging your bucket, as this is only the principle of the new era. > You put Angry Birds, HTML 5, and the Canvas element in the same > sentence, as if they're all related..... and you look at me like I'm a > dog that's just been shown a card trick? Yes, because they are all related. > How can that be? > A. the Canvas element has been supported by Apple's Webkit since 2004. I also do read the wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canvas_element But this is not related to Firefox nor its ability to render html5 code. > B. HTML 5 is not a finalised standard *yet*. It's a working draft. It seems that you don't have a minimal knowledge of how W3C manages its specs. > There are two versions of the Angry Birds game. What the hell are you talking about? I was referring to this: http://chrome.angrybirds.com/ > The on developed for Apple. It uses the Canvas element. HTML 5 is not a > standard yet. When it is, it will most likely support Apple's Canvas > Element to some degree. > > The other, more recent, version, was developed for Google. Part of the > development contract was that portions be exclusive "for the Google > Chrome Browser". It uses the Canvas Element - which is supported by some > browsers. It will never be fully supported by all browsers - even when > HTML 5 is finalized (by design). Okay, so you were not aware that it can be played with any browser that supports the canvas element. Fine. Now you know. >>> Lots of people use and want them - just like lots of people believe in >>> little green people in flying saucers... oh, hang on - it's the same >>> people. >> >> Sigh... I'm afraid you tried to connect the points by following the >> numbers in the wrong order. > > When you find:- > <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 5.0//EN"> as a tag, then you can > start testing browsers for HTML 5 support. > > Until then - we're just trying to nail smoke to the wall. (...) That's simply not true. Html is flexible and polivalent enough to start using part of a wowking draft spec "now" while keeping compatibility with html4/xhtml. Wake up! Greetings, -- Camaleón -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/pan.2011.09.29.13.37...@gmail.com
