Mozilla Dev has a little fun with Apple's HTML5 chest-pounding
Now that just about everyone on Twitter has taken a shot at Apple over their "We herd u liek standerdz!" page -- which sniffs user agents and prevents access unless you're using Safari -- it's time for the real fun to begin.
Mozilla dev Rob Sayre's rebuttal is an awesome, animated eyesore. Have a look see, and feel free to share your own interpretation with us in the comments!
Mozilla dev Rob Sayre's rebuttal is an awesome, animated eyesore. Have a look see, and feel free to share your own interpretation with us in the comments!














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Subscribe to commentsMxxConJun 4th 2010 4:37PM
retards talking about web standards, yet refuse to allow more up to date Chrome or Opera in :/
BambiJun 4th 2010 6:11PM
for the love of god get off your high horse, it's not safari only...
this works with any html5 browser :)
DanJun 4th 2010 6:12PM
forgot the damn link...
http://developer.apple.com/safaridemos/
Lee MathewsJun 4th 2010 6:14PM
Yes, the demos work...but if you go to the Safari HTML5 "muscle flexing" page, it'll sniff your user agent and tell you they only work in Safari.
Which they don't, you're right. Only the video demos gave me any guff in Google Chrome 6, but HTML5 video is still a mess anyway...
stepJun 5th 2010 10:10AM
it should work, but it politely tells you:
"You’ll need to download Safari to view this demo."
kojo87Jun 4th 2010 11:17PM
lol Netscape
TimJun 5th 2010 12:46AM
It's official - Apple needs a dictionary. "Standard" is not spelled "Proprietary" after all...
DeoWulfJun 5th 2010 4:01PM
After doing a bit of work-around, I got through on Firefox. Curious, I fired up the video demo. What did I see? "Windows users can download Quicktime for support of this industry standard format".
I am just plain not going to download Quicktime. If you want to find a web standard, you leave auxiliary programs out of it. I understand that the codec is probably bundled with Safari, but that falls under the same category for me. Firefox is my browser of choice; if you're not going to respect that, then you don't deserve to be leading the push for 'web standards'.
DeoWulfJun 5th 2010 4:01PM
--that was Re: Apple's HTML5 page.
RowedaheliconJun 5th 2010 8:49PM
So ... Apple doesn't need flash to be awesome, you just need Safari. Less work on their end right?
nicholascronwrightJun 7th 2010 6:41AM
That's funny...but I think Apple should be allowed to push Safari, Google & Microsoft (okay not Mozilla) do it. Google put links to Chrome of the homepage and Microsoft does their best to force IE onto just about anyone.
I just think trying to force Safari onto the kind of user checking out an HTML5 demo is a bit wrong. Most people checking out an HTML5 demo are just going to get angry when they try and do that.