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Steve Jobs Promises Full HTML5 Support for Safari 'Soon'

Wednesday May 5, 2010 10:07 am PDT by Eric Slivka

MacStories reports on a new email response to a customer from Apple CEO Steve Jobs, this time promising that full support for HTML5 is coming "soon" to the company's Safari browser. HTML5 has been a popular topic recently, given Jobs' continued support of the next-generation Web standard as a key component of future technologies that he believes will leave Adobe's Flash Player in the past.

But as you probably know, Apple doesn't actually fully support HTML5 in its flagship browser, the desktop version of Safari. Indeed, Safari for Mac (and Windows) doesn't have official and full support for many HTML5 specs like Geolocation API, Drag and Drop, Form Features and Inline SVG but according to this new email from Steve we received, all this stuff is coming.

Given that Google has just introduced several of these HTML5 features in its new Google Chrome beta version, it appears that Apple will likely need to move forward relatively rapidly in order to demonstrate its commitment to deploying the tools necessary for HTML5 in Safari to reach the potential espoused by Jobs. "Full" HTML5 adoption may be a bit of a moving target for Apple, however, as the standard has not yet been officially formalized.
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henrystar
27 months ago
Sounds good to me!
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ramuman
27 months ago
I need to send him an e-mail question that will result in an even terser answer:

Me: Do you plan to retire soon?

SJ: No.

or

Me: Who is the CEO today?

SJ: i (or I)
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iDisk
27 months ago
I'm thinking WWDC is "soon".

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iphone529
27 months ago
I love how people butcher the English language.
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seven2k7
27 months ago
Apple playing catch up with Google. Must be getting on Steves nerves. Should of kept his mouth shut. Now he has to deliver and deliver good.
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ValSalva
27 months ago
"Soon." That is as cryptic as it gets. Soon could be a week, a month, or a year or more. I understand that this is (or may be) an email from Steve Jobs but it's not page one material.
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Darwin
27 months ago

I'm thinking WWDC is "soon".

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I'd agree with that time frame, can't see them calling everyone in for a press event. :D
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baryon
27 months ago
I love it, the poor guy is waiting for the iPad, and Steve just HAS to have that signature saying "Sent from my iPad" just to annoy him. :D

Yes I know it's an automatic signature but it just looks ironical.

I didn't even know Safari doesn't support all of HTML5! Geolocation would be cool, then Google Maps would maybe know where I am.

Oh but wait a sec, what about those websites that tell you where you are based on your IP address? Isn't that almost the same as Geolocation? So what's the difference?

The future sounds cool though!
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macusersince5
27 months ago
look at the horrible spelling mistakes in the email.. ex. "when apple plan" and "PS. Canada wait for ipad". Did he mean to say I can't wait for ipad or i'm in canada and I want the ipad? These are questions that plague me.

edit: Correction Grammer mistakes not spelling. What was I thinking.
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cocky jeremy
27 months ago
Good. The more and more HTML5 is implemented on the web, the sooner Flash dies.
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