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Safari sucks because it's only available on macOS. It's really annoying when doing web development, especially as that's actually the browser that has the most
by conradfr 5y ago
Safari sucks because it's only available on macOS.
It's really annoying when doing web development, especially as that's actually the browser that has the most chance to act different from the others.
- irrational 5y agoAnd iOS also. At least on macOS I can use any other browser. On iOS I can only use Safari (either directly or under the hood).
- aspenmayer 5y agoYou can download Safari for Windows. I don’t know why you would, but you could.
- recursive 5y agoNo. You cannot. You would do it to test on Safari. Except you cannot. > Apple no longer offers Safari updates for Windows. Safari 5.1.7 for Windows was the last version made for Windows, and it is now outdated. https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204416 https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204416 I have a MacBook sitting on my desk that I only ever use to test something in Safari.
- aspenmayer 5y agoI misunderstood. I thought someone said Safari on Windows didn’t exist. I wasn’t aware it was discontinued; thanks for that info!
- conradfr 5y agoI could have specified. "recent versions" ;)
- pjmlp 5y agoBack when it was available, because the designer on the customer team is the only person with an iPad and somehow the rendering bugs on Safari need to be fixed for his milestone approvals.
- Eric_WVGG 5y agoNot impossible to compile WebKit for other platforms, but sounds hairy. https://schepp.dev/posts/running-webkit-on-windows/ https://schepp.dev/posts/running-webkit-on-windows/
- linopolus 5y agoYou could just use Steam, afaik they’re still using WebKit and you probably have it installed anyway ;) Or another WebKit based browser (ok, not so many): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_web_browsers#WebKit-based https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_web_browsers#WebKit-ba...
- TingPing 5y agoSteam has never used WebKit. They use CEF (Chromium).
- fiddlerwoaroof 5y agoAre they using an old, pre-Blink version?
- linopolus 5y agoOk looked it up: Steam switched to CEF in 2010 (announcement read „WebKit based“), CEF3 with Blink was considered stable and recommended in 2013. So they probably used a WebKit base for at least these three years. But, unless they still use CEF1, it’s not WebKit anymore today.
- thro1 5y ago..for Windows ? - Flock (version 3.0 and above) uses WebKit.. but the final release 3.5.3 was in Feb 2011 after: Zynga Buys Social Web Browser Flock, Jan 2011, https://mashable.com/archive/zynga-buys-flock https://mashable.com/archive/zynga-buys-flock Facebook and Zynga Enter Into Long-Term Relationship, May 2010, - (nothing left)
- doix 5y agoWebKit is not Safari. Someone on my team complained about the UI being broken in Safari. I debugged on Epiphany[0] which is also webkit based, it was broken in a slightly different way. After fixing it, it was still broken in Safari. If you want to be sure that something works in Safari, you have to test in Safari... [0]https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/epiphany https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/epiphany
- 5350-uiop-1130 5y agoAlso, pisses me off that I need an Apple account to install Safari extensions. And I need freaking XCode 12 (which requires Big Sur) just to convert my chrome extensions into Safari extensions. Just endless headaches for a simple task.
- veeti 5y agoGnome Web on Linux (WebKit based) is sometimes a close enough approximation to troubleshoot Safari issues, but yeah, it sucks.
- vladsanchez 5y agoSafari : The new Internet Explorer (smh)