Why Apple is betting on HTML 5: a web history — RoughlyDrafted M. September 19th, 2009 Daniel Eran Dilger Despite making the vast majority of its money from hardware sales, Apple is investing heavily in shaping the future of software.
One example of this pertains to HTML 5 and related web standards. Why Apple is betting on HTML 5: a web history .While the standard isn’t yet finished, Apple is already using HTML 5 as an important component in the company’s strategies, ranging from the iPod touch and iPhone’s mobile browser to Safari on the Mac and PC, from Dashboard widgets to new iTunes LP content, and from MobileMe apps to the latest iTunes Store. Critics have complained that HTML 5 won’t be finalized until 2012, and that its completion might be irrelevant anyway because Microsoft is unlikely to ever support the new standard within Internet Explorer.
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