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This is absolute nonsense. Most web technologies are supported by Safari.it has lagged behind other browsers for a while - not terribly so, but enough that it
by matthewmacleod 9y ago
This is absolute nonsense.
Most web technologies are supported by Safari.it has lagged behind other browsers for a while - not terribly so, but enough that it can be a little annoying at times. But the comparison with IE (or rather Edge now) is just wrong by an order of magnitude.
- Silhouette 9y agoThis is absolute nonsense. Really? Let's look at some specifics around PWAs and media content. Mobile Safari has historically set relatively low and hard limits when storing data for offline use through the various relevant APIs. This is a much more significant limitation in a world of offline-friendly PWAs. HTML video elements have had so many problems it's hard to keep track, from relying on a broken plugin that didn't do things like sending cookies properly with requests, through to refusing to play videos in-page on iPhones. Mobile Safari has stuck with only playing H.264 videos even as every other major browser supported open standards. Obviously IE is no longer developed and doesn't support modern PWA APIs, but even IE had better support and more compatibility with some of the other modern web APIs than Mobile Safari.
- pier25 9y agoThe problem is not only that it has lagged, but that it doesn't conform to all standards. Something that hit me hard a couple of years back is that in Safari for iOS you can't set the height of an <iframe>. Any browser back to IE4 can do this.