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Discussion on: What Do Front-End Devs Think About Safari?

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Oliver Foxley • Edited

Lately I'm finding issues with Safari which don't occur on any other browser I need to support, sometimes even including ie10 & 11. Case in point was a recent need to use background-attachment: fixed; in a project only to discover that even now Safari doesn't support this ancient property!!

I despise iOS Safari too, it is so quirky it's beyond logic sometimes. The only saving grace is the user base updates readily leaving VH unit bugs and touch delays in the past pretty quickly. CSS animation triggered by Javascript can be anything but smooth though, where it just works great on everything else. I also still find myself needing to force hardware acceleration to prevent large images from hiding when you scroll fast on a page in iOS.

It's widely documented the quirks and issues of IE and old Edge but Safari is a turd silently lurking in the shadows behind the glossy veneer of Apple.