Re:Apple is not defending browser engine choice
by agust on Friday June 24, 2022 @07:35AM
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It 100% did not in that universe. Safari is massively lagging behind, and has been for so long it will certainly be years before it catches up with Chromium or Firefox.
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Re:Apple is not defending browser engine choice
by replygirl on Friday June 24, 2022 @08:03AM
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it 50% did. safari and chrome are trading blows, with safari generally ahead on useful css and chrome generally ahead on useful api
https://caniuse.com/?compare=chrome+106,safari+16.0&compareC...
Re:Apple is not defending browser engine choice
by agust on Friday June 24, 2022 @08:26AM
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The caniuse data shows that the number of APIs Chrome supports that Safari doesn't is at least 3 times higher than the opposite, and among the APIs Safari supports that Chrome don't, most are either too old and useless, too new and equally useless, or very small compared to the massive APIs listed to Chrome advantage.
I really don't see how that translates to "Safari and Chrome trading blows" and Safari taking over Chrome by "50%"?
Also, here is more representative dataset, where you can see that Safari has more than 5 times the number of API failures compared to Chrome, and 3 times compared to Firefox (in the stable channel): https://wpt.fyi/results/?label=master&label=experimental&ali...
Re:Apple is not defending browser engine choice
by halostatue on Friday June 24, 2022 @10:28AM
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How many of those Chrome APIs are privacy misfeatures? I suspect at least half of them.