Comment by jorlow
9 months ago
If a browser has too many compatibility issues, users will switch away. Outreach to the sites in question takes time and is often unsuccessful. Quirks is the pragmatic answer.
9 months ago
If a browser has too many compatibility issues, users will switch away. Outreach to the sites in question takes time and is often unsuccessful. Quirks is the pragmatic answer.
WebKit is used by the second most popular browser after Chrome. Don't forget iOS users.
https://gs.statcounter.com/browser-market-share
My iOS/Safari is so bad, I have both Firefox and Chrome installed as a backup in case it doesn't work. They should start fixing Safari for real instead of adding Quirks.
I have bad news for you. On iOS, Firefox and Chrome use the same WebKit as Safari (because Apple doesn't allow third party browser engines on its App store).
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what’s wrong with ios/safari? i don’t really ever have issues
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That's an odd way of saying the third most popular browser.
If you click link, look at chart, you'll see they mean second.
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I don't know about quirks specifically, but often it takes many, many months before a WebKit commit actually ships to end users in Safari.
Anyway, Apple engineers aren't known for their outreach.