What Apple Gives You for $100 as a Safari Extension Developer

Re:What Apple Gives You for $100 as a Safari Extension Devel... by JohnTHaller on Tuesday January 03, 2017 @09:00AM (#13309154)

> Reddit Enhancement Suite has to decide between not publishing for one of the major browsers, or paying out for a longer, harder to maintain process, to achieve the same thing as they already do for Firefox, Chrome, Edge and Opera.

Just stop supporting Safari. It's more trouble than it's worth and, generally, the type of person that runs RES isn't running something has uncustomizable as Safari.

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Re:What Apple Gives You for $100 as a Safari Extension Devel... by falcolas on Tuesday January 03, 2017 @10:04AM (#13309562)

I was, up until recently, running Safari as my main browser just to avoid the cost in battery life; I'm also an avid RES user. I finally bit the battery life bullet and moved to Firefox for my personal browsing, but it was a hard choice to make. The battery savings (until recently) were non-trivial; giving those up was a hard decision.

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Re:What Apple Gives You for $100 as a Safari Extension Devel... by kitsunesoba on Tuesday January 03, 2017 @12:29PM (#13310889)

It depends on what facets you're speaking of, but some parts of Safari are more customizable than equivalent parts of Chrome. Safari still allows you to customize your toolbar, for instance, which unless my memory is failing me was never an option in Chrome.

Of course Firefox beats both Chrome and Safari out in this aspect, but you trade off things like the battery life you mentioned as well as compatibility with OS X services and general native-ness (Firefox has always felt odd and foreign under OS X due to using XUL for its UI). For someone like myself whose extension needs stop at Stylish and a good adblocker, the trade off isn't worth it.

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