Re:Servo in 2024: stats, features and donations
by viraptor on Thursday February 06, 2025 @07:09AM
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> then web developers normally still hold back
It takes just a few weeks on hn to see it's not true and there are a few devs who will point to the usage stats and not care about Firefox. For safari, many people just don't have access to it, so they'll never test in the first place.
Re:Servo in 2024: stats, features and donations
by JimDabell on Thursday February 06, 2025 @09:07AM
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Hacker News is not representative of the typical case. There are very few professional web developers who ignore Safari – a huge number of people surf on mobile and a huge proportion of mobile users are Safari, so any developer ignoring them isn’t doing a very good job. All web developers have access to Safari – if they don’t use macOS then they use a tool like BrowserStack to test in Safari. This is a standard part of a web developer’s toolchain.
If something doesn’t work in Safari or Firefox then web developers normally still hold back, so they aren’t de facto standards. We aren’t quite at the point we were when IE dominated the web. But there is a growing number of developers who blame other rendering engines for not blindly going along with whatever Google says, and that needs to be stopped in its tracks not accepted.