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> After 5 years since they picked up the pace of development Safari is still behind Firefox and Chrome. According to Interop 2024, Safari is right there with F

> After 5 years since they picked up the pace of development Safari is still behind Firefox and Chrome. According to Interop 2024, Safari is right there with Firefox and Chrome: https://wpt.fyi/interop-2024?stable https://wpt.fyi/interop-2024?stable Feature that Safari shipped before Firefox and Chrome [1] Features that were missing from Firefox that Safari has shipped as of 2½ weeks ago [2] Show all tabs [3] [1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44074789 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44074789 [2]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44067706 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44067706 [3]: https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/206451 https://apple.stackexchange.com/a/206451

ksec 1y ago
>According to Interop 2024, On paper yes. And that is after all these improvements. It still have more issues than others. >Feature that Safari shipped before Firefox and Chrome [1] Yes. I know all of them. But doesn't mean compatibility is close to perfect. And I am being specific about working in both browser and not just Chrome. Although Safari 18 is the one that has less issues so far. May be Safari 26 will reach the point where it is good enough compatibility wise. May be that is also what Apple feels that is why they have web compatibility button. >Show all tabs [3] That is Tab Overview and not a List of Tabs. Tab Overview will reload all tabs which means if you have hundreds if not thousands like some Firefox user, it would create paging issues and kill your SSD.
- alwillis 1y ago
  > On paper yes. And that is after all these improvements. It still have more issues than others. Each browser has to pass thousands of the same tests; this isn't just "on paper" compatibility. Each browser is 100% compatible with the CSS Nesting (for example) specification and with each other. The browser vendors get how important it is for features to function and render the same way in each browser.

ksec 1y ago

>According to Interop 2024, On paper yes. And that is after all these improvements. It still have more issues than others. >Feature that Safari shipped before Firefox and Chrome [1] Yes. I know all of them. But doesn't mean compatibility is close to perfect. And I am being specific about working in both browser and not just Chrome. Although Safari 18 is the one that has less issues so far. May be Safari 26 will reach the point where it is good enough compatibility wise. May be that is also what Apple feels that is why they have web compatibility button. >Show all tabs [3] That is Tab Overview and not a List of Tabs. Tab Overview will reload all tabs which means if you have hundreds if not thousands like some Firefox user, it would create paging issues and kill your SSD.

alwillis 1y ago
> On paper yes. And that is after all these improvements. It still have more issues than others. Each browser has to pass thousands of the same tests; this isn't just "on paper" compatibility. Each browser is 100% compatible with the CSS Nesting (for example) specification and with each other. The browser vendors get how important it is for features to function and render the same way in each browser.