There’s been a lot of debate and hate (dehate?) recently about the evolving web taking over native and too many features, etc. Here’s a new feature I thought was kind of cool. It falls squarely into the category of “document presentation” which I think is HTML’s strong suit, as opposed to “application framework”. It may be more “pretty” than “useful”, but I think I’m ok with that. Some designer will probably go nuts and ruin a web page with it, but it doesn’t seem likely to have many privacy or security implications. The worst it can do is make a page ugly, not unusable. That’s more than I’ve come to expect from new web standards, so two thumbs up from me.
I’d like to see this further adopted as well, in Firefox, Chrome, and IE. I agree with you, and would like to point that the behavior on browsers which don’t support this – “The worst it can do is make a page ugly, not unusable.”
It seems like it’s been brought up a fewtimesbefore, so perhaps webkit being the first will be enough to light a fire under everyone else.
There’s been a lot of debate and hate (dehate?) recently about the evolving web taking over native and too many features, etc. Here’s a new feature I thought was kind of cool. It falls squarely into the category of “document presentation” which I think is HTML’s strong suit, as opposed to “application framework”. It may be more “pretty” than “useful”, but I think I’m ok with that. Some designer will probably go nuts and ruin a web page with it, but it doesn’t seem likely to have many privacy or security implications. The worst it can do is make a page ugly, not unusable. That’s more than I’ve come to expect from new web standards, so two thumbs up from me.
I’d like to see this further adopted as well, in Firefox, Chrome, and IE. I agree with you, and would like to point that the behavior on browsers which don’t support this – “The worst it can do is make a page ugly, not unusable.”
It seems like it’s been brought up a few times before, so perhaps webkit being the first will be enough to light a fire under everyone else.