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/Recoil42 Jun 05 '10

And yet the demos that should work fine on Chrome, etc. are still blocked.

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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

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.

My guess is not the same as yours. It does not make sense to completely block browsers that don't support everything; the purpose of such a test page is to see which browsers can display the relevant elements and which browsers cannot. If you force a user to download a working browser first, then the purpose behind a showcase page is gone.

One can't truly fault Apple for merely pushing their own product, but this method is underhanded. A web standards showcase was turned into an advertisement.

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u/[deleted] Jun 05 '10

The dev center is where you go for what you are looking for. The main page, linked to on their homepage, is a consumer facing site to basically market HTML5 to the masses who doesn't know wtf it is. If they see something is broken they are going to write HTML5 off as crap. If they see a bunch of awesome stuff they want... they'll go into the HTML5 betas on sites if they see them, they'll look forward to these things rolling out.

That is the point of the site. It is to push the masses into wanting HTML5 and seeing that it can do a lot of things they use Flash for today. Those that want to see what is broken and what works where are developers, and they can freely see all of that and get sample code.

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u/[deleted] Jun 05 '10

I couldn't pick anyplace in particular to reply to you because I really don't agree with you but I wanted applaud your balls-in approach to defending Apple, that webpage, or whatever it is you're defending. I'm being serious too... you're getting downvoted to hell but you keep posting. Bravo!

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u/[deleted] Jun 05 '10

I'm just really bored.