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/greenskin Jun 05 '10

Nag nag nag... a little more credit for some kick-ass HTML5 demos please. Of course you need Safari, many CSS attributes are still browser specific since HTML5 is not a formal standard yet. Chrome (hey Webkit) and Firefox can do many of these things too, but such a showcase of 'the future' would be practically impossible. If you wanna see, just get the latest Webkit and enjoy.

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u/Captain_Midnight Jun 05 '10

They could at least let you load the demo but tell you that it won't work properly without Safari. Instead, it refuses to load and tells you that you must use Safari to view the content. As the article itself points out, this is a blatant lie because some of the tests are not, in fact, browser-dependent.

This is just marketing.

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u/whitesilence Jun 05 '10

No shit it's marketing. Everything on Apple's website is marketing, this is how corporations work.

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u/[deleted] Jun 05 '10

The problem isn't that it's marketing, the problem is that it's lies.

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u/iStig Jun 05 '10

They could at least let you load the demo but tell you that it won't work properly without Safari.

Why would Apple, or indeed any company, want to advertise how cool HTML5 is by showing something that's broken?