Apple, Standards and the Open Web
Pointer Events have become a W3C recommendation, but it’s not all good news as Tim Kadlec points out in Apple’s Web?
Apple simply does not play well with other vendors when it comes to standardization. The same sort of things we once criticized Microsoft for doing long ago, we give Apple a pass on today. They’re very content to play in their own little sandbox all too often.
Has Apple become like the Microsoft of old?
Further Reading
- Getting on Point – The jQuery Blog
- Pointer Events advance to W3C Recommendation – The Paciello Group
- Rethinking Microsoft’s Browser with Rey Bango – The Web Ahead (not about the issue specifically, but a good overview of Microsoft’s effort to embrace standards completely with its new browser.)