• tleb@lemmy.ca
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    9 months ago

    As a developer, Safari is the browser that supports the least standards and is holding the browser ecosystem back.

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      9 months ago

      It should be held back. Although I dislike the company, I believe safari’s market share and use of an alternative browser engine is important in keeping google from closing the web.

      • lemmesay@discuss.tchncs.de
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        9 months ago

        furthermore, they add nonstandard features to their browser(along with chrome), which makes it difficult to make websites look the same across browsers.
        fortunately, I can test those websites beforehand since we have webkit-based epiphany on GNU/Linux(the engine which safari uses).
        but other developers, especially those who are on windows can’t, since safari is mac-only.

        I have a special stylesheet to fix safari(and chrome) styling.
        otherwise it’s a fine lightweight browser(blessed be KHTML).