“Apple has launched an overhauled website, now based on HTML5 instead of HTML4,” iPodNN reports.
“The most obvious change comes in the form of a new navigation bar, dark instead of light gray, with a search field that scales in size to match entered terms,” iPodNN reports. “The site is also better compatible with mobile browsers.”
iPodNN reports, “Clicking on either the Mac or iPod tabs brings up new, animated product navigation menus, making it easier to jump to a particular device or piece of software.”
Read more in the full article here.
fancy
snappier!
Too bad Samsung device browsers may have trouble viewing the standard compliant site.
It’s all coming together now! Yessss. Consistency, less fragmentation. Mhmm. Ladies and gentlemunchies, introducing a delicious preview to Mac OS X 10.7
You better believe it!
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Yep, snappier.
Geez. Steve is on leave for five minutes and already they’re redecorating! When the cat’s away…
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Looks good. When is MDN going to get a makeover? How about new articles appearing automatically, rather than having to refresh the page.
I love how when you click on the “Mac” tab all the products drop very quickly from the top center to their position. Is this flash?
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I only wish they would update iTunes App store site to be more user friendly.
@ Papasmak
So you may be joking but just in case….It’s JavaScript.
Looking at the source I don’t really see any HTML5 with the exception of the doctypes. Event the meta just below declares xhtml so I’m gonna go ahead and call BS.
Maybe their new pages will be implementing it and they plan on a staged roll-out but as of yet this is NOT HTML5.
It is a step forward though.
The website is definitely faster. If this is the future of the web then I like it.
I wondered how well the pages render in IE, FireFox. In IE on windows XP the pages loaded faster but there are not of the graphical effects you see in Safari. Same for FireFox. So my guess is that their HTML5 implementation is not as modern as Safari’s
Microsoft just announced that their Zune store’s HTML will go to eleven….
I read the headline, viewed source on the site and was expecting some actual HTML5 (header, nav, section, article tags etc). There are none.
Looked at the CSS, not a gradient or even a border-radius in sight, it’s all images.
Tell me how this classes as HTML5?
@ RamaFan
C’mon RamaFan. This is like saying Pineapples are not fruit, but “a composite of many flowers whose individual fruitlets fuse together around a central core.”
Interesting they’re using the Prototype/Scriptaculous Javascript libraries for the effects. I would have guessed they’d use JQuery.
@ Papasmak
It’s not flash. It’s Scriptaculous. Check out their page…
http://script.aculo.us/
You’ll see the effects Apple is using.
When I click on the main (US) Apple ‘Store’ tab, I get a full page width of ladder like tabs at the top with rather ugly white tab titles. It does this in both Crome and Safari.
Same with the Apple UK site, but it doesn’t do it in the Apple NZ or Apple Oz sites.
Maybe this is a dumb question, but is it supposed to look like that?
Uh, huh, I see the problem has now been fixed. Presumably there was a small glitch in converting some of the Apple sites to full HTML5.
I love apple but gaaaaah!! everything is moving around and crap!! IT’S A F***ING DOCUMENT!!!! THINGS SHOULDN’T MOVE AROUND!! seriously let the browser load new pages, I liked there old one better 🙁