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Re:Safari's date-picker is the cause of 1/3 of our customer ... by simonw on Tuesday December 27, 2022 @12:36AM (#34145472)
The claim that "Safari is the new IE" has nothing to do with perceived quality of Safari's implementation of things.

It's that Safari is the only browser allowed on iOS. Which means that we are stuck with the subset of the standards that Safari has chosen to implement.

So Safari has outsized influence over which standards are actually feasible to build an application around.

One example: I've lost count of how long I've been waiting to build web apps that can send (user requested) push notifications.

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Re:Safari's date-picker is the cause of 1/3 of our customer ... by least on Tuesday December 27, 2022 @12:58AM (#34145625)
> So Safari has outsized influence over which standards are actually feasible to build an application around.

Which, considering the alternative is Google having complete control over the web, I'm quite thankful for. It doesn't line up with how I'd like things to be in either case but it's much better for there to be some sort of check against Google. Google is far too aggressive about implementing new tech in the browser for very obvious reasons.

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