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For developers, Apple’s Safari is crap and outdated

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For developers, Apple’s Safari is crap and outdated

Until its recent demise, Internet Explorer was the browser hated most by web developers.

Internet Explorer is now a thing of the past, replaced by the far-better Microsoft Edge.

Why did developers and software engineers hate IE so much? Because IE was seriously outdated, lacking support for cutting-edge web APIs and technologies enabling the modern websites and web apps we use today.

With IE now out of the way, the distinction of ‘most-hated browser’ goes to Apple’s Safari – which all along had been a close second to IE.

In a similar vein, Safari has consistently lagged behind competing browsers in supporting modern web APIs and features, presenting considerable challenges for developers wanting to create products that work consistently across all the major browsers (Chrome, Edge, Firefox, and Safari).

However, the annoyance with Safari gets deeper and more nuanced, which I’ll explain further below.

Read in full here:

https://blog.perrysun.com/2021/07/15/for-developers-safari-is-crap-and-outdated/

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I’ve been trying to use Safari for work for the past month. I feel like I kept running into walls. Lack of extensions was a big thing.

One of the things that annoyed me the most, was that if you put YouTube videos in 2x speed it distorts the audio (sounds metallic and inside a box) whereas setting in 2x on Chrome doesn’t give the same distortion.

I don’t think that’s a good idea. If anything we should have less legislation around software. As long as the operating systems providers do not have a monopoly - and are not actively blocking the use of other software, I don’t see why we need to have our politicians and lawmakers involved.

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Don’t forget that Opera was bought by a Chinese ad network as well. :grin:

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