jasonliul Posted July 6, 2012 Share Posted July 6, 2012 Thinks that they can outsmart everyone else. When you start bundling crap with your web browser, you know that there is something fundamentally wrong with your priorities. So, what do you do when you have already lost your dignity and suck at pretty much everything you do? You cheat, obviously. After claiming that Maxthon scores a total of 467 points in the HTML5Test, Niels Leenheer has found out that this is not exactly the case. In fact, they enabled features that do not actually work, just to boost the meaningless score. Niels wrote: Dear @Maxthon, please do not enable webkit features that do not work. I’ve blacklisted your browser on WebGL, getUserMedia and subtitles. Also @Maxthon please disable these features in the next version (unless they work) or I will remove Maxthon from html5test browser lists. The latest version of Maxthon scores 422 points on html5test.com instead of 467. If you don’t support features, don’t claim you do! You guys wanted publicity? Well, here you have it. Good job, Maxthon. Article: http://www.favbrowser.com/maxthon-scams-its-score-in-html5test-com/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator DKT27 Posted July 6, 2012 Administrator Share Posted July 6, 2012 I don't have anything for or against Maxthon as I've never tried it myself. However, exclude the cheating part, Firefox scores 345+9. I don't see a big deal in it. In the end, this particular HTML5 test doesn't mean anything. Because, it seems that everyone is making a new thing and claiming it a standard. This test means nothing until the actual HTML5 specifications are finalized.Anyway, if they have cheated, it's not a great thing to do. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jasonliul Posted July 6, 2012 Author Share Posted July 6, 2012 And you thought you were behind on HTML5. Microsoft just gave a presentation at the W3C and discussed at least on major proposed feature for HTML6, which could see a specification as early as June of next year[2012]. It almost sounds like science fiction given the fact that only 1% of websites implement HTML5 features today, a tenth of a percent uses advanced HTML5 functionality and there is no browser that supports the entire feature set of HTML5. Microsoft’s Patrick Dengler presented HTML6: HTML+SVG+CSS, which provides some ideas on the future integration of these three standards. Microsoft, Adobe Talk HTML6 http://www.conceivablytech.com/4419/business/microsoft-adobe-talk-html6 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Administrator DKT27 Posted July 6, 2012 Administrator Share Posted July 6, 2012 And you thought you were behind on HTML5. Microsoft just gave a presentation at the W3C and discussed at least on major proposed feature for HTML6, which could see a specification as early as June of next year[2012]. It almost sounds like science fiction given the fact that only 1% of websites implement HTML5 features today, a tenth of a percent uses advanced HTML5 functionality and there is no browser that supports the entire feature set of HTML5. Microsoft’s Patrick Dengler presented HTML6: HTML+SVG+CSS, which provides some ideas on the future integration of these three standards. Microsoft, Adobe Talk HTML6 http://www.conceivab...dobe-talk-html6 That's still old news. On 14 February 2011, the W3C extended the charter of its HTML Working Group with clear milestones for HTML5. In May 2011, the working group advanced HTML5 to "Last Call", an invitation to communities inside and outside W3C to confirm the technical soundness of the specification. The W3C is developing a comprehensive test suite to achieve broad interoperability for the full specification by 2014, which is now the target date for Recommendation. ..... The criterion for the specification becoming a W3C Recommendation is "two 100% complete and fully interoperable implementations". In an interview with TechRepublic, Ian Hickson guessed that this would occur in the year 2022 or later. However, many parts of the specification are stable and may be implemented in products. Wikipedia. It was later decided, probably after the above article, that html5 specifications recommendations won't be finalized till 2014 and won't have W3C (World Wide Web Consortium, the standards managers of the WWW) official stamp till 2022. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jasonliul Posted July 6, 2012 Author Share Posted July 6, 2012 And you thought you were behind on HTML5. Microsoft just gave a presentation at the W3C and discussed at least on major proposed feature for HTML6, which could see a specification as early as June of next year[2012]. It almost sounds like science fiction given the fact that only 1% of websites implement HTML5 features today, a tenth of a percent uses advanced HTML5 functionality and there is no browser that supports the entire feature set of HTML5. Microsoft’s Patrick Dengler presented HTML6: HTML+SVG+CSS, which provides some ideas on the future integration of these three standards. Microsoft, Adobe Talk HTML6 http://www.conceivab...dobe-talk-html6 That's still old news. On 14 February 2011, the W3C extended the charter of its HTML Working Group with clear milestones for HTML5. In May 2011, the working group advanced HTML5 to "Last Call", an invitation to communities inside and outside W3C to confirm the technical soundness of the specification. The W3C is developing a comprehensive test suite to achieve broad interoperability for the full specification by 2014, which is now the target date for Recommendation. ..... The criterion for the specification becoming a W3C Recommendation is "two 100% complete and fully interoperable implementations". In an interview with TechRepublic, Ian Hickson guessed that this would occur in the year 2022 or later. However, many parts of the specification are stable and may be implemented in products. Wikipedia. It was later decided, probably after the above article, that html5 specifications recommendations won't be finalized till 2014 and won't have W3C (World Wide Web Consortium, the standards managers of the WWW) official stamp till 2022. 2014,2022...wow. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
T4C Fantasy Posted July 8, 2012 Share Posted July 8, 2012 DKT can you post some news about any programs that support full current html5 standard development, like a website creator program that has all the available features to make a html5 website Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bizarre™ Posted July 17, 2012 Share Posted July 17, 2012 Maxthon Issues Official Response Regarding The HTML5Test Reestablishes the trust. Recently, Maxthon was accused of cheating its score in the HTML5Test but, as it turns out, it’s not all doom and gloom for the Chinese company. As explained in their official blog post, they simply released a build that (partially) supports Web GL, ‘Get user media’ and ‘Subtitles’ attributes too quickly and that, as a result, caused quite a backlash. Here is what they had to say: Specifically, some have cited our work implementing Web GL, ‘Get user media’ and ‘Subtitles.’ We looked into the work behind that, and here’s what we found: We pushed out code in a build of Mx3 that wasn’t ready to be pushed out. Plain and simple: That code should not have been released. It wasn’t complete. Unfortunately, as it was implemented, it triggered a positive response from HTML5test.com. Hence the allegation of ‘scamming.’ That was a mistake; and we will fix the code within the week. It was not some effort to manipulate our score on HTML5test.com. It was a result of a development process that can be improved. Engineers approach their work differently. Some start with an architectural idea of how they want to implement something, and they code toward that end vision. Others jump in, start coding and test until their code works. In this situation, one of our Mx3 engineers was coding, testing against the HTML5test.com and tweaking until it appeared to him that it worked. To put it another way, this was an engineer-error that should have been caught in QA. That’s it, no conspiracy here, folks. View: Original Article Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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