A bit off topic - I find it surprising that the animations don't work in IE9. I'...

nextparadigms · on March 10, 2012

Well, when Mozilla and others argued that "IE9 is not a modern browser", a lot of other people laughed at them because they thought IE9 doesn't need to support "many HTML5 specs", just a "a few good ones". Now you see the consequence of that. The reality is that IE9 is still about 2 years behind in HTML5 specs adoption, and you can easily tell that from the HTML5test.com site.

Also, IE9 is still a pretty niche browser version. If they were to find an alternative for IE9, then they might as well find one for IE8, which has a much larger market share.

Steko · on March 10, 2012

It's really not Apple's fault that this animation won't work in IE until IE 10.

CWIZO · on March 10, 2012

You missed OP's point. He is not bashing IE9 for not being able to run this animations and then blaming Apple for that.

He is wondering why Apple didn't make the animations with something that would also work on IE9 considering that that are the users they want to get.

Steko · on March 10, 2012

Spoilers:

~ IE 9 users don't get a broken box that says "upgrade to Safari to see the animation".

~ They get an animation that's supported in IE 9.

~ When they get IE 10 they will probably see the slightly cooler one that Firefox/Chrome/Safari can see because they support it today.

Hoff · on March 10, 2012

Because it makes the Apple stuff look better, particularly in comparison to the latest of the Microsoft browser products?

huggyface · on March 10, 2012

I wanted to watch a Garageband video (which is, in my opinion, the "killer app" of the iPad. It is the one thing Android tablets have or could even have until some future version eliminates the horrific audio latency), only it demanded that I have Quicktime. I have no interest in installing Quicktime.