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Originally Posted by AustinChief
http://jejacks0n.github.com/mercury/ THIS is how I know HTML5 is still not ready for prime time (although I wish it was!)
I wanted to use this editor on a project for a client and couldn't because it won't work with Internet Explorer because they have yet to implement an important part of HTML5.
As I predicted.. HTML5 adoption over the last 18 months has been spotty at best. It would be in the best interest of everyone if that wasn't the case but WISHING for it doesn't make it reality.
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That's fine, but it sorta misses the bigger concept, here. When it comes down to it, this whole debate has been about the viability of the iPad, and subsequently iOS, as a browsing/internet machine. The issues about Flash vs. HTML5 are somewhat superfluous, considering that they don't REALLY matter so long as the device can access the content in a reasonable manner. And judging by the marketshare of iOS devices, I'd say that they do the job very well. Perfectly? No. But they do well enough that people get by. Just because the webpage may not have HTML5 doesn't mean that it is inaccessible to an iOS device, and that's what really matters as it pertains to this thread.
I think this whole discussion has become too bogged down in details.