Apple's Mobile 3D Graphics Play - Freezing out Flash

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Apple's Mobile 3D Graphics Play - Freezing out Flash

http://arstechnica.com/apple/news/2009/03/apple-holding-back-on-web-base...
Scanned by: Alvis Brigis about 1 year ago

If you needed further evidence that Apple will never allow Flash to sully its portable Internet devices, then 3D CSS transforms are it. Along with WebKit's support for HTML 5's advanced media handling capabilities, advanced Nitro JavaScript engine, and CSS-based transforms and animations, Apple is readying WebKit to be the best tool for providing web-based applications on a wide variety of platforms. ... Enabling the 3D capabilities on the desktop would go a long way towards generating interest in making Apple's currently-proprietary CSS extensions into a de facto, or even official, web standard.

Type: Prediction | Also: The Web, Computers |

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