Comment by ainar-g
6 years ago
Some of my front-end colleagues like to tell me that Safari is the new IE 6. Not in terms of the market domination (that's Crhome for you), but in terms of dragging the front-end back with unimplemented features, quirks, and bugs. The amount of hacks they have to add just to support Safari is uncomfortable.
No, they are confusing developing for Chomium first and not testing on all browsers.
Safari is behind in terms of W3C features. But implementing unsupported features does not mean you are hacking to support Safari. They should look into the progressive enhancement principle and CSS @support feature.
I'm strictly talking about the canvas and audio implementations, forcing me to use all kind of different hacks just to get a reasonable FPS in Safari. Audio I've given up on long time ago and don't get me started on Mobile Safari.