Why rivals Google and Apple agree on HTML5

Re:Why rivals Google and Apple agree on HTML5 by Kilimanjaro on Tuesday December 07, 2010 @11:37AM (#1979534)

They don't agree, they both need it to be ahead of the competition in the web arena. Microsoft lost a lot of time trying to hold the web back while they milked the most of the desktop world. Now they are catching up in desperation as they see their internet flagship IE sink to lowest levels ever.

So, all agree in HTML5, they all support it, because they all need it.

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Re:Why rivals Google and Apple agree on HTML5 by emehrkay on Tuesday December 07, 2010 @12:44PM (#1979810)

I don't think that the idea of Microsoft "trying to hold back the web" has ever crossed my mind, but damn if that isnt true. They are even shipping an IE7-level browser with Windows Phone 7

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Re:Why rivals Google and Apple agree on HTML5 by metageek on Tuesday December 07, 2010 @01:08PM (#1979929)

Oh, absolutely. That was their beef with Netscape, way back when: Netscape was a platform for delivering apps independent of the OS. NS was very explicit about it, talking about "crossware", applications written in HTML+JS+Java that would work on any OS where Netscape ran. It was premature—NS's one big crossware app, Netcaster, was slow and clunky—but still very scary to anybody that sold OSes.

(Edit: actually, it probably wasn't scary to any OS vendor but MS; the others were all happy to think that users might move to applications that could run on their OSes, too.)

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Re:Why rivals Google and Apple agree on HTML5 by forgotAgain on Tuesday December 07, 2010 @12:16PM (#1979699)

Agreed, the Fortune title should have been "Why rivals Google and Apple like HTML5".

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