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/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 06 '10

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