It’s nice that’s Apple’s launched an HTML5 demo page. It’s well done, and shows off a number of nice features of HTML5. It’s designed, of course, to bolster Apple’s argument that add-ons like Adobe’s Flash are unnecessary and outdated. The nice thing about using standards, argues Apple, is that you don’t need plug-ins or add-ons…everything just works. You’re not dependent on one company or one product.

What’s not a good way to support this point? How about requiring that anyone not using Safari switch browsers to view the demo. It undercuts the argument significantly. While it’s true that some other browsers don’t support all the HTML5 features, Apple would be wise to at allow as much as possible. They could either just block specific demos that wouldn’t work, or display a notice that the browser may have incomplete HTML5 support and certain features may not work.