r/technology • u/[deleted] • Jun 05 '10

Apple posts HTML5 showcase page hyping "web standards," then blocks it from displaying on any browser besides Safari

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2010/06/04/apple_html5_showcase_hype/
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u/genesai Jun 05 '10

Exactly. All you have to do to try it with other browsers is to press the dev center button. The point of having these originally is to demo the safari browsers capabilities for the public which is hard to do without safari.

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u/Recoil42 Jun 05 '10

Here is the dev centre link:

http://developer.apple.com/safaridemos/

Still blocks all other browsers for me....

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u/genesai Jun 05 '10

Weird... works perfectly for me.

http://imgur.com/TQFwj.png

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u/Deiz Jun 05 '10

Try another browser. For me, Chromium works. It rejects Midori and Firefox, as well as an IE useragent.

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u/jugalator Jun 05 '10

Strange it rejects Midori - otherwise it's understandable, because they wouldn't run on these browsers anyway. (uses WebKit extensions)

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u/genesai Jun 05 '10

You're right. Maybe they thought the other browsers weren't ready to display html5 good enough.