How about a poll: Go to http://diveintohtml5.org/detect.html which
helps detect your browser's html5 capabilities. Note the ogg video
and Marcus's reference:
http://weblogs.mozillazine.org/roc/archives/2010/01/video_freedom_a.html
Here are mine (Safari 4.0.3):
#1: Geolocation: Yup, shows a map using the info.
#2: Canvas: Yes, Produces "Your browser supports the canvas API."
#3: Video: Half, Produces "Your browser can play H.264 video, but not
Ogg Theora video".
#4: Input types: 5 out of 13, Produces "Your browser supports the
following HTML5 input types: search, tel, url,email, number, range"
Using Chrome, 5.0.307.7 beta for Mac:
#1: Geolocation: No.
#2: Canvas: Yes
#3: Video: All, Produces "Your browser can play both Ogg Theora and H.
264 video".
#4: Input types: 13 out of 13, Produces "Your browser supports the
following HTML5 input types: search, tel,url, email, datetime,
date,month, week, time, datetime-local, number, range, color"
Using Firefox 3.6 for Mac:
#1: Geolocation: Yes, w/ security prompt.
#2: Canvas: Yes
#3: Video: Half, Produces "Your browser can play Ogg Theora video, but
not H.264 video".
#4: Input types: None, Produces "Your browser does not support any
HTML5 input types"
It looks like Google's Chrome is soon going to be my desktop/laptop
browser, judging from its html5 support. Ironic that it does not yet
have geolocation, considering the other two browsers use it to pop up
a google map! Then the iPad and lappy will be html5 ready! I hope
Apple goes to both video formats with ogg.
-- Owen
On Feb 12, 2010, at 11:21 PM, James Steiner wrote:
Thanks, Owen! That was really interesting!
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 11:13 PM, Owen Densmore
<o...@backspaces.net> wrote:
Just in case anyone missed this:
http://diveintohtml5.org/
.. its a great intro to HTML5, the reason iPad feels it does not
need Flash.
-- Owen
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