Jobs promises full HTML5 for Safari 'soon'
updated 12:00 pm EDT, Wed May 5, 2010
Desktop browser lags behind Chrome
The desktop version of Safari should "soon" get full HTML5 support, Apple CEO Steve Jobs reportedly claims in a new e-mail. The browser, available for Mac and Windows, is still lacking many of the components of the HTML5 specification, including drag-and-drop, geolocation and inline SVG. Several of these have been added to the latest beta of Google Chrome, rendering Safari outdated.
The situation is odd in that Apple has championed HTML5 as an alternative to Flash, currently the most common standard for online video and advertising. Most of the company's interest has been centered around the iPad, however, to the extent that the Apple website highlights HTML5 sites as "iPad ready." The last major desktop version of Safari, Safari 4, was released on June 8th last year; this could suggest that Apple will time an update for this year's WWDC, scheduled to begin on June 7th.
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Some of these people think that Apple
has unlimited resources to develop everything at once. I heard some rumor that when Motorola decided to go to Android, they hired a huge amount of staff to tackle as many things as they could at once. I'd hardly think Apple works like that. Apple probably has some small staff to work on maybe a couple of projects at once but the people are probably very good at what they do. I really don't understand the complaints about how come this and that isn't done faster. When the feature comes or project gets completed, it's usually done very well and I'd think it would be worth the wait.