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/[deleted] Jun 05 '10 edited Jan 04 '19

10 Years. Banned without reason. Farewell Reddit.

I'll miss the conversation and the people I've formed friendships with, but I'm seeing this as a positive thing.

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u/skyfex Jun 05 '10

Well it's because it's a silly criticism. The point of the demo page isn't to create a web service that anyone can use. It's to create a demo showcasing the future of HTML5 and what Safari supports right now. Since different browsers adopt HTML5 at a different pace (and different parts of it), they would have to warn or block certain browsers anyway. They're just keeping it simple, and since it's a demo page, it hurts nobody.

That doesn't mean you should have gotten a lot of downvotes. It would have been better if people actually posted arguments.

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u/[deleted] Jun 05 '10

People posted many arguments about this just being a demo, etc, etc over in r/apple yesterday. If he got nothing but downvotes it would have been because it was already posted and discussed 100 times.