07.06.04
HTML Extensions and Safari and Apple
For Tim, Boris, Randy, et al.:
Look at what Dave Hyatt is saying this way: On the Mac platform there are a few real-time compositing graphic languages: DisplayPostscript/Quartz, QuickDraw, OpenGL. Windows has DirectX and such, right?
Apple is adding a new one: HTML/CSS/JS. This isn’t about extensions for the web, it’s about giving Mac developers the ability to composite on screen in a highly accessible language. This is for the Mac Platform, not the Web Platform.
And, adding additional non-standard extensions to Safari and WebCore/WebKit is *much* different for Apple than it was for Netscape or Microsoft for two reasons: A) Apple has been adhering closer and getting better compatibility with published W3C standards and this development has not apparently made much of an impact in delivering this, B) Apple and Safari are not in a position of complete or near-complete market dominance. Without the network effect that an overriding incumbent would have, proprietary functions are exactly that: Proprietary… to only be used on the Mac.
However I think Dave might start framing the talk around what extensions have been added to “WebCore/WebKit” rather than Safari.