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Re:Hobson's Browser: How Apple, Facebook and Google broke th... by cbovis on Sunday July 25, 2021 @04:31AM (#27947667)
I'm a regular desktop Safari user and you'd be surprised how many websites are just flat out broken in Safari, especially government sites. Part of the reason I use it as my daily driver is to ensure that the websites I'm working on get tested properly in Safari since the defacto browser for most developers seems to be Chrome.
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Re:Hobson's Browser: How Apple, Facebook and Google broke th... by jefftk on Sunday July 25, 2021 @08:26AM (#27948654)
I wish Apple would make a Safari for Windows or Linux. That the only way to test that your site works properly in Safari is to buy Apple hardware is certainly a contributor to sites being broken in it.
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Re:Hobson's Browser: How Apple, Facebook and Google broke th... by gjsman-1000 on Sunday July 25, 2021 @09:21AM (#27948984)
They had Safari for Windows for several years, but abandoned it because it didn't gain enough market share.
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Re:Hobson's Browser: How Apple, Facebook and Google broke th... by ksec on Sunday July 25, 2021 @04:04PM (#27952436)
That is the point, they want user to complain to Site owners for not working on Safari and forcing them to Buy Apple Hardware.

Basically if you want to serve the 1.4B Active Apple Devices which nearly all use Safari, you have to buy an Apple hardware to test it.

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Re:Hobson's Browser: How Apple, Facebook and Google broke th... by kitsunesoba on Sunday July 25, 2021 @08:55AM (#27948826)
It’s not a perfect analogue, but under Linux, Epiphany/Gnome Web is a reasonably close match for most purposes. Not sure about Windows.
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