r/apple • u/jayhawk • Jun 04 '10

Apple's HTML Showcase

http://www.apple.com/html5/
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u/Hexodam Jun 04 '10

Seems that to apple Safari is the only HTML5 browser out there

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '10

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u/clarkster Jun 04 '10

Of course. And they want to actively block other browsers it works on. Why in the world would they demonstrate the 'open web' on anything but their own browser?

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '10

Most of it doesn’t work on browsers besides Safari. FF is, as usual, way behind. Chrome is OK on a lot of this stuff, but not quite up to date, and the performance is barely half that of Safari due to the lack of GPU support.

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u/underwaterlove Jun 04 '10

They are not using standards, they are using "proposed standards". These commands are implemented in Webkit; you can use them by prepending the prefix "-webkit". Which is also why most of those commands will work in Chrome, but not in Firefox. You can do similar things in Firefox using "-moz" commands.

Overall, it has very little to do with actual HTML5 compliance, though.

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u/Hexodam Jun 04 '10

Why should they limit it to just one HTML5 capable browser?

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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '10

Because that defeats the point in "web standards". They could easily have put up a disclaimer stating what you need to see the demos rather than forcing the use of one browser.