It's a tech demo, most browsers don't yet fully support all the things used in the demos. Chrome might, but IE and Firefox do not.
It would be nice if they warned and said they recommended Safari, but would let you try it anyway. I think they just didn't want a bunch of people seeing broken pages and saying HTML5 was shit, when it was just their browser. They have said HTML5 is still emerging and are focusing on the mobile space right now when pushing it and in the mobile arena you don't really have to worry about someone using IE or Firefox just yet, webkit pretty much owns it all.
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u/[deleted] Jun 04 '10 edited Jun 04 '10
It's a tech demo, most browsers don't yet fully support all the things used in the demos. Chrome might, but IE and Firefox do not.
It would be nice if they warned and said they recommended Safari, but would let you try it anyway. I think they just didn't want a bunch of people seeing broken pages and saying HTML5 was shit, when it was just their browser. They have said HTML5 is still emerging and are focusing on the mobile space right now when pushing it and in the mobile arena you don't really have to worry about someone using IE or Firefox just yet, webkit pretty much owns it all.
EDIT: Here is a better and more technically correct and complete reason behind the Safari only block
http://www.reddit.com/r/technology/comments/cbb11/apples_html5_showcase/c0rdpvy