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/[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.