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No, it's not. It cannot be and this is extremely harmful and short sighted. Safari does not have a monopoly on either Desktop or Mobile. Safari while behind do
by rubyn00bie 8y ago
No, it's not. It cannot be and this is extremely harmful and short sighted.
Safari does not have a monopoly on either Desktop or Mobile. Safari while behind does not implement its own broken standards and force them upon everyone. It doesn't allow for semantically broken HTML and simply "fixes it."
I'm not trying to be ageist here, but I often find this rhetoric from people who are too young to have actually worked with IE 4-6.
- wvenable 8y agoAt the time IE6 was released it was easily best browser and many many of the standards that we now take for granted (DOM events on every tag, AJAX, etc) were started with IE. Now what followed that was years of stagnation just like we're starting to see with Safari. Safari is the exclusive platform browser for iOS; even Microsoft didn't prevent you from installing alternative browsers! So in that way, Mobile Safari is even worse. From there, everything else follows: developers simply cannot afford to ignore Safari, despite its flaws, just like they couldn't afford to ignore IE despite its flaws.