This is starting to become a trend, but it needs a strong driver. The Windows 8 App Store may provide the push needed to get HTML5 adoption up for applications. It's a different ball game in the web, but I think we'll start to see the web playing a bigger role in the marketplace.
Microsoft surprised me that they didn't block out other browsers. Google didn't surprise me at all and the game is blocked in Opera. It works when user-agent is changed.
It's sad when company acting as someone for open and standard web is doing this. And Google is doing this user-agent sniffing across all their products.
That's probably it for some features but it still sounds like "You have to use IE5 or higher to see this site" to me.
Also, some features have been blocked for a long time for no apparent reason, for example background image on search. It worked from the day one (when you changed the user-agent), there is nothing scientific about it, yet it is still blocked years later.
Angry Birds is not using HTML5, visit http://chrome.angrybirds.com/ without Flash installed and you get "Looks like you either don't have Adobe Flash installed or are using an older version of Adobe Show."
This is starting to become a trend, but it needs a strong driver. The Windows 8 App Store may provide the push needed to get HTML5 adoption up for applications. It's a different ball game in the web, but I think we'll start to see the web playing a bigger role in the marketplace.
Just curious: Why the down vote?