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Apple's HTML5 and Standards Gallery Not Standard
snitch writes "Apple has created an HTML5 Showcase that presents its vision for the next generation of the WWW. The fact that this page is only accessible using the Safari browser, while Apple advocates about web standards, has caused many to criticize the company's lack of broader platform support. The showcase demonstrates several HTML5 capabilities and features that have to do with video, typography, transitions, audio, etc. Further, on the front page the company states that 'Standards aren't add-ons to the web. They are the web. And you can start using them today.' The latter statement falls short by the fact that the featured examples only work with the Safari browser, and in the case of the CSS 3D transforms demonstration, require Mac OS X Snow Leopard (Safari PC or plain Leopard won't do)."
Yes, it did. Many of them also work in Opera. You're just - no offense - too stupid to change your browser's User Agent string so that it identifies itself as Safari, which is the only thing these demos check for.
or how about you just learn how to set the user-agent string in your browser so it says it's safari, and then give it a try before *you* say it didn't work? the demos work in chrome, most of them work in opera, but firefox fails at all of them.
No, dumbass -- it's an HTML5 demo for Apple's users, most of whom browse with Safari.
This slashdot obsession with trolling Apple has gone waaaaaaay too far. You folks are looking pretty pathetic lately...
All you dumbasses just don't get it. These demos are showing what the HTML 5 standard can do. The fact that other browsers aren't there yet has nothing to do with Apple !
It's a demo of Safari's HTML 5 capability. Of Course you need safari to use it.
Some drink at the fountain of knowledge. Others just gargle.
(remember the good old days when large numbers of sites would shriek for IE; but render just fine if FF was set to IE's UA string?)
The good old days? Oh, I see, you mean 5 years ago. I thought you were talking about the ancientweb when Netscape roamed the net and sites held out signs like "Explorers only, we don't serve nomads here".
Opps you badmouthed Apple. I can foresee my future karma hell for the mere reason of talking straight about Apple.. as if I care.
/. so I can learn about open source, is this forum turned out to be a chapel for Apple? Everyday I see more articles about Apple than about open source. Anyone knows a good site free of stupid fanboyism where I can learn and get news about open source world?
/. ghost! he will DELETE your post when moderation is not effective in hiding what you say.
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In distopian slashdot the memo better gets you.
Is Apple preventing other browsers from identifying themselves as Safari when browsing the web? no? then Apple hasn't contradicted themselves, this is a non-story.
Or that's how the zealots will justify it, anyways.
"I would of" -- Lazy American English
"I would have" -- What you probably meant to say (protip: "of" isn't a verb)
"I'd have" -- What you probably should have written if you weren't speaking Lazy American, regardless of whether you are one or not.
Don't bring rational arguments on this discussion Apple's HTML5 is magical, you don't need to know anything else dude. That stupid designers and their kerning
Embrace and Extend...
Browsing at +1 - no ACs, I ignore their posts. So refreshing!
You are - no offense - too busy up the ass of "political correctness on the web" to realize what this showcase is about. It's a showcase for HTML5, meant to look good, to show what HTML5 is capable of. Why ever would they want HTML5 to look bad by having these demos run on one of the other browsers that so far haven't caught up the point Safari/WebKit has with implementing HTML5? How would this work in favor of the HTML5 cause? Not one bit in these demos use vendor-specific hacks. It's all parts of what the W3C has specified for HTML5.
expect anything less from Apple?
Also, /. is overrun with Macfags. Is there an A.I.D.F. newsletter I could join?
How about you fuck off from here and go back to applefanbois.com?