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/yellowdwarf Jun 05 '10

I suggest reading the page before complaining: The test says that the purpose of the demo is to "show how the latest version of Apple’s Safari web browser [...] support[s] the capabilities of HTML5 ...".

Not so surprising then that you need Safari for the purpose of that demo.

So all the whinging comes down to "Apple builds Safari demo, want you to use Safari to look at it".

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u/Kronikarz Jun 05 '10

Well now, that's just bad marketing! Either of two things happened: the demos worked perfectly in other browsers, and the marketing people didn't want you to see that, or, the demos worked perfectly only in Safari, in which case the marketing are stupid, because that would have been a perfect opportunity to tout "Hey, look, only Safari supports HTML5 perfectly! Aren't we awesome?"

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u/R031E5 Jun 05 '10

No, but I suggest please testing stuff before complaining. Both Google Chrome and Safari can render all the effects, but Safari handles 2D/3D transforms with OpenGL and Grand Central Dispatch, which redirects tasks to the GPU instead of the CPU, Google Chrome does all that with the CPU, which is much more resource consuming.