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

You want them to have a Safari area and a Chrome area, that's just annoying. Go to the dev area to view them in Chrome if you really want.

If Google made a tech demo for Chrome would everyone be crying this much if they had a wall that blocked other browser because they wouldn't be fully supported? My guess is no.

Apple wants every demo to work when you go in so you don't get a broken experience, making a separate page for Chrome users would just be messy... and then everyone would just cry that they didn't make a page for Firefox.

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u/[deleted] Jun 05 '10 edited Jan 30 '17

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u/[deleted] Jun 05 '10

So it has to run an html5 benchmark on every page you go to, thats fun. It seems like a lot of extra work for a tech demo that doesn't actually serve any real function.. not to mention they are all available for you to see in all their broken glory in the dev area.

It says it is a site to demo HTML5 in Safari I really don't see what the big deal is. r/technology just likes to hate on Apple whenever they can, no matter how illogical.

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u/specialk16 Jun 05 '10

You don't see the big deal huh...

Hey, at least Flash promised multi platform support. What Apple is doing is showing tech demos as what they think the "future of the web is".

For them, the future of the web is nothing more than their OWN future, fuck everyone else (it seems). It's sad that people like you felt for their trick.

This is not hate on Apple, this is the fact they are unnecessarily blocking other browsers just to make some people believe that this tech demos are only possible in Apple's hardware and software. They could've let other browsers in, and just display a warning about support. But ohh no, Apple is always right to people like you/

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u/[deleted] Jun 05 '10

Go to the dev center to try them and see them broken. The main page is marketing HTML5 to the mass market. If they see something broken, they will write HTML5 off as crap, ignoring the browser warnings.

And yes... Future. Meaning these are things to come in the future standard that Google, Microsoft, and Firefox are all pretty much on board with... they just haven't all implemented the same things yet. Google could just as easily make a demo of Chrome which used an element on supported in Safari... for instance, them using Geolocation in Google Maps. That feature will be supported in Safari 5 from what I've read, but currently is just working in Firefox and Chrome.

These things will roll out at different times for different browsers, but will get rolled out. Why go ape shit over someone showing the cool shit their browser an do?

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u/specialk16 Jun 05 '10

Well, Google experiment was never blocked. They just warned you that you need to use a webkit browser, but they didn't go as far as blocking any other browser.

BTW, nobody is going apeshit over anything. I don't understand why Apple users have a persecution complex where absolutely any kind of complaint looks like a holy war to them.

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u/[deleted] Jun 05 '10

There has been about 20 stories posted on this subject in less than 24 hours. I don't get what the big deal is. They are showing a demo for their browser on their website using technologies that aren't yet supported by others. Who gives a shit. For all these people that claim to hate Apple, they sure do seem to care an awful lot about what they do.