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Actually, didn't the latest build of Safari nightly recently over take all the other browsers in terms of number of supported features? I swear that was shared

Actually, didn't the latest build of Safari nightly recently over take all the other browsers in terms of number of supported features? I swear that was shared here on HN.

agust 4y ago
It 100% did not in that universe. Safari is massively lagging behind, and has been for so long it will certainly be years before it catches up with Chromium or Firefox.
- replygirl 4y ago
  it 50% did. safari and chrome are trading blows, with safari generally ahead on useful css and chrome generally ahead on useful api https://caniuse.com/?compare=chrome+106,safari+16.0&compareCats=all https://caniuse.com/?compare=chrome+106,safari+16.0&compareC...
  - agust 4y ago
    The caniuse data shows that the number of APIs Chrome supports that Safari doesn't is at least 3 times higher than the opposite, and among the APIs Safari supports that Chrome don't, most are either too old and useless, too new and equally useless, or very small compared to the massive APIs listed to Chrome advantage. I really don't see how that translates to "Safari and Chrome trading blows" and Safari taking over Chrome by "50%"? Also, here is more representative dataset, where you can see that Safari has more than 5 times the number of API failures compared to Chrome, and 3 times compared to Firefox (in the stable channel): https://wpt.fyi/results/?label=master&label=experimental&aligned https://wpt.fyi/results/?label=master&label=experimental&ali...
    - replygirl 4y ago
      oh cool. hey quick question, how do i do a hanging quote in chrome?
    - halostatue 4y ago
      How many of those Chrome APIs are privacy misfeatures? I suspect at least half of them.
  - tsuujin 4y ago
    It helps that Jen Simmons, a renown css evangelist and expert, works on safari.
mtomweb 4y ago
No. Safari is miles behind. https://wpt.fyi/results/?label=experimental&label=master&aligned https://wpt.fyi/results/?label=experimental&label=master&ali... Interop2022 is probably what your referring too but that’s just a small (but still important) functionality that the browsers have agreed to focus on. Interop is great, but using it as the primary metric for your browser is very dishonest. Apple tried to do this in their regulatory filing but every other vendor and developers said that the overall stats are much more representative.

Actually, didn't the latest build of Safari nightly recently over take all the other browsers in terms of number of supported features? I swear that was shared here on HN.

agust 4y ago

It 100% did not in that universe. Safari is massively lagging behind, and has been for so long it will certainly be years before it catches up with Chromium or Firefox.

replygirl 4y ago
it 50% did. safari and chrome are trading blows, with safari generally ahead on useful css and chrome generally ahead on useful api https://caniuse.com/?compare=chrome+106,safari+16.0&compareCats=all https://caniuse.com/?compare=chrome+106,safari+16.0&compareC...
- agust 4y ago
  The caniuse data shows that the number of APIs Chrome supports that Safari doesn't is at least 3 times higher than the opposite, and among the APIs Safari supports that Chrome don't, most are either too old and useless, too new and equally useless, or very small compared to the massive APIs listed to Chrome advantage. I really don't see how that translates to "Safari and Chrome trading blows" and Safari taking over Chrome by "50%"? Also, here is more representative dataset, where you can see that Safari has more than 5 times the number of API failures compared to Chrome, and 3 times compared to Firefox (in the stable channel): https://wpt.fyi/results/?label=master&label=experimental&aligned https://wpt.fyi/results/?label=master&label=experimental&ali...
  - replygirl 4y ago
    oh cool. hey quick question, how do i do a hanging quote in chrome?
  - halostatue 4y ago
    How many of those Chrome APIs are privacy misfeatures? I suspect at least half of them.
- tsuujin 4y ago
  It helps that Jen Simmons, a renown css evangelist and expert, works on safari.

mtomweb 4y ago

No. Safari is miles behind. https://wpt.fyi/results/?label=experimental&label=master&aligned https://wpt.fyi/results/?label=experimental&label=master&ali... Interop2022 is probably what your referring too but that’s just a small (but still important) functionality that the browsers have agreed to focus on. Interop is great, but using it as the primary metric for your browser is very dishonest. Apple tried to do this in their regulatory filing but every other vendor and developers said that the overall stats are much more representative.