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The lack of RES when browsing Reddit. But that's more about the developers' choice to discontinue support than Safari (which, as I recall, was about the lead ti

The lack of RES when browsing Reddit. But that's more about the developers' choice to discontinue support than Safari (which, as I recall, was about the lead time of getting extension approval, not the browser itself). Overall, as a user of Safari, I appreciate that it lags behind the bleeding edge. Stability, battery life, and privacy are important things to me.

theshrike79 5y ago
I still have Chrome installed on my work laptop. I only use it for the dev tools and never really browse outside of localhost. =)
vehemenz 5y ago
I use a handful of Tampermonkey scripts to get some of RES's functionality. It's not ideal, but it's good enough for me. YMMV
- falcolas 5y ago
  Any chance those Tampermonkey scripts are available to others?
  - vehemenz 5y ago
    Here's a few: https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/41065-reddit-auto-load-more-comments https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/41065-reddit-auto-load-mor... https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/40897-old-reddit-please https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/40897-old-reddit-please https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/433321-comment-expander-for-reddit https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/433321-comment-expander-fo...
simion314 5y ago
>Overall, as a user of Safari, I appreciate that it lags behind the bleeding edge. Stability, battery life, and privacy are important things to me. Some features could help with that like https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HTMLImageElement/loading https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HTMLImageEl... , if Safari is always behind 1 year or two then you always lose battery and bandwidth, so yeah Safari devs are not chasing efficiency if they would then they would have been the first not the last to implement this. Also try to search for "broken/not working in Safari" and you will see is not all about some nightmarish privacy invading APIs.
- falcolas 5y ago
  Both are fair points. And yet at the end of the day, it's Chrome that spins my fans up, not Safari. It's Chrome that's pushing FLOC and its replacement, not Safari.
- dmitriid 5y ago
  > they would then they would have been the first not the last to implement this. Look at it this way, too: It's quite possible that before you get to performance savings by implementing `loading`, you may have a list of things a mile long that are higher on the priority. So, you solve those first. > Also try to search for "broken/not working in Safari" and you will see mostly people who develop and test on nothing but Chrome.
  - simion314 5y ago
    >mostly people who develop and test on nothing but Chrome. Most developers can't test on Safari , I use Ff for dev (my colleagues use Chrome) nobody owns a Mac to test on it and there are Safari only issues or cool features that work in Ff and Chrome but not in Safari.
mesofile 5y ago
FYI, it seems that RES is being EOL'd [0]. The linked announcement describes how the contributing developers have dwindled down to only two people. I am curious how this situation will evolve, or if it will, since I also dislike using Reddit without the enhancement suite. Edit: link to HN discussion from last week [1] [0] https://www.reddit.com/r/RESAnnouncements/comments/sh83gx/announcement_life_of_reddit_enhancement_suite/ https://www.reddit.com/r/RESAnnouncements/comments/sh83gx/an... [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30157233 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30157233
- falcolas 5y ago
  This makes me unaccountably sad. And yet, it also feels inevitable, with all the changes to the UX. Bah.

theshrike79 5y ago

I still have Chrome installed on my work laptop. I only use it for the dev tools and never really browse outside of localhost. =)

vehemenz 5y ago

I use a handful of Tampermonkey scripts to get some of RES's functionality. It's not ideal, but it's good enough for me. YMMV

falcolas 5y ago
Any chance those Tampermonkey scripts are available to others?
- vehemenz 5y ago
  Here's a few: https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/41065-reddit-auto-load-more-comments https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/41065-reddit-auto-load-mor... https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/40897-old-reddit-please https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/40897-old-reddit-please https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/433321-comment-expander-for-reddit https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/433321-comment-expander-fo...

simion314 5y ago

>Overall, as a user of Safari, I appreciate that it lags behind the bleeding edge. Stability, battery life, and privacy are important things to me. Some features could help with that like https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HTMLImageElement/loading https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/HTMLImageEl... , if Safari is always behind 1 year or two then you always lose battery and bandwidth, so yeah Safari devs are not chasing efficiency if they would then they would have been the first not the last to implement this. Also try to search for "broken/not working in Safari" and you will see is not all about some nightmarish privacy invading APIs.

falcolas 5y ago
Both are fair points. And yet at the end of the day, it's Chrome that spins my fans up, not Safari. It's Chrome that's pushing FLOC and its replacement, not Safari.
dmitriid 5y ago
> they would then they would have been the first not the last to implement this. Look at it this way, too: It's quite possible that before you get to performance savings by implementing `loading`, you may have a list of things a mile long that are higher on the priority. So, you solve those first. > Also try to search for "broken/not working in Safari" and you will see mostly people who develop and test on nothing but Chrome.
- simion314 5y ago
  >mostly people who develop and test on nothing but Chrome. Most developers can't test on Safari , I use Ff for dev (my colleagues use Chrome) nobody owns a Mac to test on it and there are Safari only issues or cool features that work in Ff and Chrome but not in Safari.

mesofile 5y ago

FYI, it seems that RES is being EOL'd [0]. The linked announcement describes how the contributing developers have dwindled down to only two people. I am curious how this situation will evolve, or if it will, since I also dislike using Reddit without the enhancement suite. Edit: link to HN discussion from last week [1] [0] https://www.reddit.com/r/RESAnnouncements/comments/sh83gx/announcement_life_of_reddit_enhancement_suite/ https://www.reddit.com/r/RESAnnouncements/comments/sh83gx/an... [1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30157233 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30157233

falcolas 5y ago
This makes me unaccountably sad. And yet, it also feels inevitable, with all the changes to the UX. Bah.