Looks like a fun time though… reminds me of what I remember from a visit I made to Jamaica.

First off tanx for posting this…I can soooo relate to this entry. I deff broke away from the crowd. I still wonder about my future… I know were I am now and were I have to go but its change that freaks me out. St. Croix will forever be my home. Life is full of characters, but just cause you’re a character doesn’t mean you have character! Life will forever be a learning process. Keep up the good work Jerlyn.
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One thing is a fact I am glad you are part of my life Jerlyn!!! We have both come a long way from high school. Its time to keep going!!!

They should have pitched these as “the new developing standards” and “Safari is ahead of the pack! Experience the future now!”…

What *would* have been cool is to show what these look like in your browser and if you are not using Safari, show the nag dialog provide a video of what this looks like in Safari. I think people would be more interested in downloading Safari if they can see what they do.

In the end (as front-end developer, myself, who primarily does JavaScript but occasionally does Flex development), I think Apple’s stance is valid… Browser makers could adopt HTML5 and CSS3 goodness now, so developers can develop for them (albeit with -webkit- or -moz- hooks in the interim) for enhancements to the experience and we can move the ball forward toward these standards and away from Flash/Silverlight/etc. Similarly to how developers used to embed Java applets into web pages to provide more advance capabilities to the web experience (an by an large do not anymore), plug-in-based solutions will at some point become more and more niche.

I don’t think they (Flash/Silverlight/etc.) will go away any time soon, but if developers (and users) can get this sort of functionality out of their browsers (with capabilities baked into approaching 100% of mobile and desktop browsers) to enhance the experience, the new standards will catch on fast. As a person who goofs around with HTML5 and CSS3 right now, being able to do these things within normal page markup, enhance interactivity, and easily change specs/presentation/window size/orientation/etc. there are many great things a developer can do easily without having to build moderately complex things [and redundant views] in Flash.

There will likely be things, even 5 years out from now, that Flash will be able to do better, faster, and with less development time than HTML5 (and will still be used in this manner), but I do believe that a great deal of interactive web interfaces (and I am talking about now) are built in Flash where even HTML(4/XHML) with CSS2 and JavaScript is the more flexible solution. This will be more the case with HTML5/CSS3 capabilities in the major browsers.

HTML5 and CSS3 was a big topic at An Event Apart (which I recently attended) and many of the luminaries in the front-end web community spoke to providing progressively better and better experiences, based on the capabilities of the browser (everything works in everything, but layouts reconfigured or stripped down for mobile devices with less screen real estate, new browsers giving extra candy to browsers than can handle them). Clean, web-standards-based markup itself has a big leg up on scaling and profiling experience to everything out there (in terms of old/new browsers/mobile devices) [with some hacks and supplemental JS, in some cases] as opposed to Flash (as much as Flash does allow you to do “everything now”).

Is the Apple site a little douchey? Sure. Could they have pitched it better? Absolutely. Are we going to have HTML5 in everything within the next few years? Yes, yes we are. http://html5readiness.com/