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I on the other hand am utterly grateful that we have Safari: 1. It is a great browser from the users perspective. Nice UI, very fast, battery efficient. 2. Ge
by gampleman 5y ago
I on the other hand am utterly grateful that we have Safari:
1. It is a great browser from the users perspective. Nice UI, very fast, battery efficient.
2. Generally has a good privacy record and does propose and champion web tech around that.
3. Safari is pretty much the only reason we actually have web standards and the web isn't defined by the reference implementation - Chrome.
- jbverschoor 5y agoChrome wouldn’t even exist without WebKit/ apples push and contributions.
- feross 5y agoThat’s true. But at this point, I think Chrome might have more dev-rel people than Apple has full-time Safari engineers (!!) Before Chrome forked WebKit, they were doing the lion’s share of the work in WebKit. And even now a huge percentage of the security fixes in WebKit are credited to Google (according to macOS and iOS release notes). You have to give the devil his due: Google has invested in the web platform in a way that Apple never did.
- pieno 5y agoPretty sure Google would have forked KHTML or even Gecko themselves if Apple had not forked KHTML to become WebKit.
- karmakaze 5y ago3. ...except on iOS.
- Abishek_Muthian 5y ago> It is a great browser from the users perspective. Not for everyone, maybe for those users whom Tim Cook often sights as "won’t have to make risky decisions" like say installing uBlock origin. Besides, the rant in OP is not just developer problems but issues which prevent the developer from delivering best experience to the Safari users and thereby the users loose as well.
- freediver 5y agoThat is why nowadays there is a WebKit fork that runs uBlock Origin - Orion browser.