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Re:Hobson's Browser: How Apple, Facebook and Google broke th... by dmitriid on Sunday July 25, 2021 @02:09AM (#27947114)
Yes, he's very outspoken on Twitter where he twists reality to suit his own worldview (which is almost invariably "Safari bad, put Chrome on iOS") and he completely ignores the realities that are:

- So many APIs he raves about are considered harmful by both Safari and Firefox: https://webapicontroversy.com/

- Chrome is blatantly ignoring all input and forces poorly specified internal Chrome APIs onto the world under the guise of "standards"

But sure. "He's outspoken on Twitter" should really absolve him and any criticism of what he writes is "inane".

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Re:Hobson's Browser: How Apple, Facebook and Google broke th... by torartc on Sunday July 25, 2021 @12:50PM (#27950708)
I don't typically agree with Russle on most things, but Safari is in fact bad.
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Re:Hobson's Browser: How Apple, Facebook and Google broke th... by dmitriid on Sunday July 25, 2021 @04:17PM (#27952547)
Safari is, in fact, fine. The "Safari bad" argument comes from people who are keen on turning the Web into something it can never be: an app platform.

I very very very much prefer the "bad Safari" to the shiny Chrome which pushes (and ships) "standards" so bad other browser developers can't even understand them [1]

[1] https://github.com/mozilla/standards-positions/issues/459

Edit: grammar and typos

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