Re:Firefox is the alternative to a Chrome hegemony
by defaultname on Monday November 29, 2021 @12:18PM
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Ignoring that I've been a professional software developer for 26 years, a large part of that building large scale web applications (every one for the past decade+ targeting Safari as well, and before that I always ensured my teams supported alternative browsers even when various team members were moaning and whining about how much a nuisance it is), let me just focus on this-
"misguided impression that it’s a good browser"..."Simply talk to any developer"
Your experience as a developer, and you dealing with utterly trivial regressions or handicaps, has shockingly little bearing on whether it is a "good browser" or not.
Re:Firefox is the alternative to a Chrome hegemony
by robertoandred on Monday November 29, 2021 @12:29PM
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Let me know when Firefox finally supports backdrop-filter. And it already took Chrome forever.
Re:Firefox is the alternative to a Chrome hegemony
by dmitriid on Tuesday November 30, 2021 @04:56AM
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> imply talk to any developer who has to do a significant amount of work building apps in Safari
Don't build "apps" in the browser. Period. It's shitty, underperforming, and breaks all user expectations, regardless of the browser it's running on.
I've yet to see a single app, PWA or not, that wasn't so. Unless it's just a re-skin of a simple website with text and images, and a few forms, but then it's just a website, and if you can't make it run on Safari, go find a different job.
It breaks in every major version that’s been released. Simply talk to any developer who has to do a significant amount of work building apps in Safari and they will tell you the same thing.
The webkit team is talented and do great work but this is simply a result of a decade of underfunding and it’s just not possible for them to maintain a modern browser with their current resources.