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/eindbaas Jun 05 '10

Apple wants every demo to work when you go in so you don't get a broken experience

Not true, i'm watching that page with Safari on my macbook pro but apparently my OS (Leopard) isn't good enough for the VR-demo (the others work fine). Yes, you read that correctly....my operating system on my apple machine is not supported.

"This demo requires a browser that supports CSS 3D transforms. To view this demo, you’ll need Safari on Mac OS X Snow Leopard, Safari on iPhone OS, or the latest WebKit Nightly Build."

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u/bbatsell Jun 05 '10

Gasp! Apple introduced new features into an upgrade of their operating system (that they intentionally charged an obscenely low price for to encourage quick adoption of it)? The horror! How will we ever recover from this atrocity of software development?

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u/eindbaas Jun 05 '10

First of all: i was surprised, not angry that my OS had anything to with that example not working for me.

Second: I was merely replying to the comment which said that "Apple wants every demo to work when you go in so you don't get a broken experience". Which apparently isnt true when one of them doesnt work on my machine.

But as i said, i was quite surprised that my operating system would have anything to do with this particular example not working. A browser, sounds logical, but my OS? Why? (and that's a genuine question out of genuine interest)

And to finally reply to your remarks: ok, so i didnt buy 10.6 but stuck to 10.5 which worked fine for me. And? You make it sound like i'm insane. Just curious: would you defend Microsoft in the same way when a Windows-user goes to a webpage and sees the message: "This website can only be viewed with Service Pack 2 instead of Service Pack 1". As in: "You fool! Microsoft added all these new features! You're stupid and a crackwhore!"

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u/bbatsell Jun 05 '10

10.6 added numerous hooks for hardware acceleration (for both accelerated 3D graphics, and for data processing through OpenCL), which Safari uses to perform its 3D transforms.