Raw Meat is a quoteblog by Aaron Swartz.

Web standards == Safari?

Pretty brazen that Apple’s site promoting “web standards” uses browser sniffing so that it only works in Safari. I think it’s a fairly minimal definition of standard to require that it work in more than one browser. It’s especially silly since so many other browsers (e.g. Google Chrome) are based on WebKit and so should render things pretty much identically to Safari.

You can open it up in Chrome using:

open /Applications/Google\ Chrome.app   --args -user-agent="Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10_5_3; en-us) AppleWebKit/525.19 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/3.2.1 Safari/590.19"

and you’ll see that while some things don’t work (mostly the 3D), all of the apps are designed to degrade gracefully and don’t show the options that aren’t supported by the browser or display a polite message if the page can’t work at all. This seems like a much better example of web standards than simply blocking everyone but Safari.