Safari isn’t the problem, but the lack of browser choice in iOS is

Re:Safari isn’t the problem, but the lack of browser choice ... by fauigerzigerk on Friday July 03, 2015 @10:38AM (#9825800)

>One of the liberating things when first developing a Web App for iOS was only having to support a single modern browser

I can imagine that it is liberating just as it would be liberating to develop exclusively for any other browser. But what is the use case for that? I wasn't even aware that "iOS Web Developers" exist.

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Re:Safari isn’t the problem, but the lack of browser choice ... by adamlett on Friday July 03, 2015 @03:38PM (#9827550)

I think the point was that iOS as a platform presents far fewer challenges to web developers than Android does because of the multitude of different browsers people use on Android. PPK has written at length about the problem with all the different versions and forks of Chrome that exist on Android here:

http://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2015/02/chrome_conti...

and here:

http://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2015/02/counting_chr...

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Re:Safari isn’t the problem, but the lack of browser choice ... by fauigerzigerk on Friday July 03, 2015 @05:53PM (#9828145)

I get that, but if I create a web app, I have to support all kinds of different browsers anway, so how does it help to know that iOS users are only going to be using Safari? I'm not aware of any website that is exclusively used by iOS users.

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Re:Safari isn’t the problem, but the lack of browser choice ... by adamlett on Tuesday July 07, 2015 @03:29PM (#9847551)

Yes, excactly. Since you have to support all the browsers, you should be thankful that there aren't more of them. On iOS you only have one browser to test against and you're done. OTOH it's practically impossible to exhaustively test on Android. Being a web developer I know which of those two platforms I wish were more like the other.

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