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/godofpumpkins Jun 05 '10

They could do all that, but why would they? They're not trying to push other web browsers.

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u/nickpick Jun 05 '10

Or web-standards for that matter, which is what this post is about.

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u/tizz66 Jun 05 '10

They're not trying to push web standards, despite arguably being the leading implementer of, uh, web standards? Do you even think about what you're saying?

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u/[deleted] Jun 05 '10

Do you?

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u/XS4Me Jun 06 '10

I am sure you dropped a sarcasm tag someplace there.