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> ...pressure Apple to catch up to Google's web standards faster. Ftfy. Safari is the only brake we have in this rush towards complex and unmaintainable web,
by bornfreddy 1y ago
> ...pressure Apple to catch up to Google's web standards faster.
Ftfy.
Safari is the only brake we have in this rush towards complex and unmaintainable web, with Google (the only company which can afford to play this game) at the helm. So no, Safari not supporting some random new feature is not a bad thing.
- ytpete 1y agoDuring the "Safari is the new IE" era though, Apple had created all sorts of proprietary extensions to make websites more mobile-friendly... a whole slew of nonstandard `-webkit-*` prefixed CSS properties and DOM events. I can't say for sure whether pressure from Google got all that stuff migrated into real web standards faster or not, but it sure felt at the time like it was having that effect.
- bornfreddy 1y agoYeah, I'm not saying that G is evil and A is good. They both use (dirty) tricks to get ahead of competitors and to stay there.