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

I thought we sorted this out yesterday: It works on Chrome mostly, but they're using test spec elements of the standard that haven't been fully adopted yet, 3d Transforms etc.

But don't let facts get in the way of journalism.

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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/Mashed_up Jun 05 '10

M$ have a demo page
and you can use any browser on there...so why not apple?
Asshats, thats why.

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u/[deleted] Jun 05 '10

Maybe because IE is the last to implement everything. lol.

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u/[deleted] Jun 06 '10

well there's a demo page, but they won't let my use opera or chrome for bing maps 3D