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Comment by panstromek

6 days ago

It might look ok from user's point of view, but lot of the problems fall on web developers who have to work around a bunch of these issues to make their pages work in Safari

Been working with web related tech since the early 00’s. Safari has just never been a problem except for invasive ads, like back in the Flash days.

  • This is such nonsense and everyone who’s a web developer knows you’re not being honest here but just to make it ever clearer for anyone else here’s a chart showing the number of bugs that only occur in a single browser.

    https://wpt.fyi/results/?label=master&label=experimental&ali...

    It’s undeniable that Apple makes a dogshit browser.

    • > This is such nonsense and everyone who’s a web developer knows you’re not being honest

      And in your opinion "being honest" is speaking for every web dev out there?

      I've been a web dev for 25 years (god I'm old) and Safari has not been a major pain for me.

      You keep bandying wpt.fyi results around not even understanding what they mean. E.g. Safari only passes 8 out of 150 accelerometer tests. So? Does it affect every web dev? Lol no. But it does pass 57 out 57 accessibility tests which is significantly more important.

      Edit: don't forget that there's also Interop 2025 which paints a very different picture: https://wpt.fyi/interop-2025?stable

I was doing web dev or related from 2000 to 2016. IE6 was far worse than anything Safari has done.