HTML5: The Technology Changing the Web

I'm surprised that wsj is portraying that Apple is the driving force between HTML5. It seems to me to be a much more "grassroots" level idea than one coming from the top down.

Re: HTML5: The Technology Changing the Web

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Post by andrewfelix » Mon, Nov 14, 2011, 9:41 PM UTC

"A year and a half after Steve Jobs endorsed it in an unusual essay"...Must everything be explained in the context of Steve Jobs now?

Re: HTML5: The Technology Changing the Web

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Post by jolie » Mon, Nov 14, 2011, 9:42 PM UTC

Good lord. This is why I universally recommend journalists writing on technology take at least 6 months of programming instruction.

Re: HTML5: The Technology Changing the Web

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Post by georgemcbay » Mon, Nov 14, 2011, 10:28 PM UTC

scottschulthess wrote: post #3

a set of programming techniques called HTML5 is rapidly winning over the Web A set of programming techniques, orly?

The sad part is that if a journalist friend of mine sent this to me to proofread for technical content and asked about the HTML5 description, I'd have read it, sighed, thought, sighed, and replied "yeah sure that's fine".

Not because I'd want him or her to look silly but because what is already there (while not entirely accurate) is about as useful as anything else one could say about what "HTML5" is in a reasonable amount of words/pages.