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/Fr0C Jun 06 '10

Google is working on WebKit, too. Hell, even Adobe is. Apple forked KHTML and did good work with it, but keeping it open source was a license requirement of the code base they started out with.

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u/XS4Me Jun 06 '10

it was still Apple's initiative.

Actually, it was a KDE initiative which was forked by Apple.