HTML5 is almost here and every browser is getting ready to be able to manage it, the format still has some adjutments to recieve, but we can be sure of its importance. This is exiting news but I guess that some people don't understand fully what HTML5 standard means.

Apple demo page for Safari

Apple just publish a HTML5 demo page to show the amazing (and they are truly amazing) options that HTML5 and CSS have. The problem is that the demo is for Safari only.

One of the reasons of the standard is to bring the complete web experience to all the browsers that support HTML5. Blocking the other browser with the user-agent detection I believe is against that.

I don't think the reason for blocking other browsers is a good path either, they just could let other browsers try the test and fail, but they rather force you to download Safari

Anyway, I tried to get into the Test via Firefox. I used the User Agent Switch to convince the page that I was using Safari 4, and I could try some of the demos. Obiously, and this is going to be an issue in the near future, I couldn't watch the video or the VR otpion because it uses H.264 format.

HTML5 Tests

By the way, although the Safari test is truly amazing, the browser from apple still doesn't fully supports HTML5. I tried an html5 with this an other browsers and thise are the figures I tried everything but IE on a Mac.

• Safari: 113/160
• Chrome: 142/160
• Opera:  102/160
• Firefox: 101/160
• IE8: 19/160

In the other hand, Microsoft published a repport stating that the next IE9 has full 100% HTML5 compliance. The numbers are truly amazing, but they are a little hard to believe. Mostly because HTML5 is not yet fully finished and there are still some tuning up going on.

In spite of all that, apparently HTML5 is going to be one of the important tools in the browser war in the next future and every browser is trying to to their best.

The only thing I belive is that the video issue will be a hughe interference. Right now while Safari and IE promotes H.264, Opera and Firefox work with the open and free format OGG. In the meantime Chrome works with both being the best option.

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