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+1 for Apple educating people on the awesomeness of HTML5.

-1 for being Safari-only.

Then again, when you think about it - the Safari-only filter implicitly tells people that Safari is the 'only' browser (or the best browser) currently supporting HTML5; that other browsers have to play catchup.

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They explicitly say this on the front page: "Not all browsers offer this support. But soon other modern browsers will take advantage of these same web standards — and the amazing things they enable web designers to do"

The problem is that they block Chrome 5 too, which is more advanced than Safari 4 (newer version of webkit).

Except that it isn't. You can run the demo in Chrome if you want. Someone in this thread did...

I tried, but didnt work in Chrome. Not that i want it to. Safari is the only browser on my mac and works almost fine.

Did you read the thread? At least 3 people (at the time of this reading) have done it. You have to change the user agent setting.

Can someone please look into who is going through downvoting all my posts without comment?

How can you say they aren't blocking Chrome if you need to say you aren't Chrome to run it?

The claim was that Chrome is more advanced. You can run Chrome and verify that it can't do the more advanced features.

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