Re:iOS allows alternative browser engines in Japan
by panstromek on Thursday January 01, 2026 @05:47PM
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It might look ok from user's point of view, but lot of the problems fall on web developers who have to work around a bunch of these issues to make their pages work in Safari
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Re:iOS allows alternative browser engines in Japan
by jonhohle on Thursday January 01, 2026 @07:02PM
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I was doing web dev or related from 2000 to 2016. IE6 was far worse than anything Safari has done.
Re:iOS allows alternative browser engines in Japan
by simianparrot on Friday January 02, 2026 @02:06AM
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Been working with web related tech since the early 00’s. Safari has just never been a problem except for invasive ads, like back in the Flash days.
Re:iOS allows alternative browser engines in Japan
by mdhb on Friday January 02, 2026 @02:52AM
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This is such nonsense and everyone who’s a web developer knows you’re not being honest here but just to make it ever clearer for anyone else here’s a chart showing the number of bugs that only occur in a single browser.
https://wpt.fyi/results/?label=master&label=experimental&ali...
It’s undeniable that Apple makes a dogshit browser.
Re:iOS allows alternative browser engines in Japan
by troupo on Friday January 02, 2026 @07:40AM
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> This is such nonsense and everyone who’s a web developer knows you’re not being honest
And in your opinion "being honest" is speaking for every web dev out there?
I've been a web dev for 25 years (god I'm old) and Safari has not been a major pain for me.
You keep bandying wpt.fyi results around not even understanding what they mean. E.g. Safari only passes 8 out of 150 accelerometer tests. So? Does it affect every web dev? Lol no. But it does pass 57 out 57 accessibility tests which is significantly more important.