4 June

Apple's HTML5 Showcase

Apple just launched a gallery of interactive, iPad friendly HTML5 tech demos, presumably to (a) reassure uneasy developers that they really are on board and don't plan to purge iPhone OS of Mobile Safari in order to ensure the App Store's supremacy and (b) rub salt in Adobe's gaping wounds.

The examples are nice, although slick HTML5 demos are a dime a dozen these days. Bizarrely, they're all WebKit only – even demos that other engines like Gecko are perfectly capable of rendering – so it's really only showing off what WebKit can do, which sort of defeats the purpose. Worse still, the site will block all non-Safari browsers so even those using some flavour of WebKit, like Chrome (which has a greater market share than Safari) will be turned away. Stupid.