In my opinion Safari was almost great, and then Apple just stopped trying. I'm sure the folks working on Safari are putting in a lot of work with good intentions, but their efforts seem starved.
Safari is a pleasant browser which is clean, light, performant software. I think it wins on less bloat vs Chrome, but it seems really late to deliver on APIs everybody else is in agreement on and it ships inconsistent implementations of standards with no obvious public statement about the bug.
(Apple also breaks stuff in WKWebview without notice π)
I like Safari as an end-user if I can get out of the mindset of knowing how sloppy it is in that ecosystem due to the focus on performance and such, but I have mostly worse things to say.
This incredibly frustrating afternoon still lingers in my mind π€ͺ:
In my opinion Safari was almost great, and then Apple just stopped trying. I'm sure the folks working on Safari are putting in a lot of work with good intentions, but their efforts seem starved.
Safari is a pleasant browser which is clean, light, performant software. I think it wins on less bloat vs Chrome, but it seems really late to deliver on APIs everybody else is in agreement on and it ships inconsistent implementations of standards with no obvious public statement about the bug.
(Apple also breaks stuff in WKWebview without notice π)
I like Safari as an end-user if I can get out of the mindset of knowing how sloppy it is in that ecosystem due to the focus on performance and such, but I have mostly worse things to say.
This incredibly frustrating afternoon still lingers in my mind π€ͺ:
Safari's implementation of srcset is buggy, rendering the whole feature basically useless
Ben Halpern γ» Oct 16 '17 γ» 2 min read