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With this 2 minutes blog post I would like to remind Apple that HTML5 is (actually will be) a web standard. This means that, quoting an old draft of the HTML5 W3C specification, the goal of the HTML5 web standard is to

"define an openly-produced, vendor-neutral language, to be implemented in a broad range of competing products, across a wide range of platforms and devices. This enables developers to write applications that are not limited to one vendor's implementation or language."

That's why I've been pretty disappointed while visiting Apple's brand new HTML5 advertising web page. The following is what you get when you visit it with a perfectly HTML5 compatible web browser, such as Mozilla Firefox, Google Crome or Opera.

Wait.. isn't the whole point of a web standard to be vendor lock-in free??? Ok, let's make it clear.

Dear Apple, we already know embrace, extend and extinguish .. you won't be able to do that for HTML5.

Even if you have been able to produce a wide mass of brainwashed Apple fans which unfortunately counts a lot of web developers and designers among them, we FLOSS and open standards supporters won't let you do so.

HTML5 is and will be a vendor-neutral language and such exploitations are unacceptable.

Today Steve Jobs will do his keynote at WWDC 2007.

There is a lot of excitement for this event as probably he will reveal what will be the next cool products by Apple.

Probably we will have lot of news on the next to be launched iPhone!

So.. if this event interests you below there are some websites which will coverage Jobs' keynote live.

engadget.com