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Re:Washington Post's Privacy Tip: Stop Using Chrome, Delete ... by hungryhobbit on Saturday June 07, 2025 @03:27PM (#44211964)
Developers don't convince anyone of anything! They just build stuff according to standards (which are inevitably set not by standards orgs, but by the most popular browsers), and then they expect all browsers to follow those standards and "just work".

When a browser like Safari fails to adhere to those standards, sites will break ... but you can't expect developers (of most sites; I'm not talking about the top 100 or anything) to test in every possible browser ... and then change their code to accommodate them. Certainly not in ones with single-digit percentages of market share, that require their own OS to test (like Safari).

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Re:Washington Post's Privacy Tip: Stop Using Chrome, Delete ... by kstrauser on Saturday June 07, 2025 @03:57PM (#44212198)
Wikipedia says Safari’s their #2 browser, with 17% traffic share: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Usage_share_of_web_browsers

Web devs ignore Safari at their own risk, lest 100% of iPhone users be unable to use their site.

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Re:Washington Post's Privacy Tip: Stop Using Chrome, Delete ... by someNameIG on Saturday June 07, 2025 @05:31PM (#44212826)
If Apple wanted more web devs to support Safari they should port it to Linux and Windows. The web is supposed to be an open standard, you shouldn't need a devices and software from a specific manufacturer to develop for it (I say that posting from a Mac).
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Re:Washington Post's Privacy Tip: Stop Using Chrome, Delete ... by sertsa on Saturday June 07, 2025 @09:27PM (#44213915)
At some point there was a Safari for Windows.
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Re:Washington Post's Privacy Tip: Stop Using Chrome, Delete ... by hungryhobbit on Monday June 09, 2025 @04:37PM (#44229179)
But there isn't anymore, so there's no way for a web developer to ensure Safari compatibility (unless you expect every dev shop in the world to buy a Mac just for that purpose).
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