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>One of the liberating things when first developing a Web App for iOS was only having to support a single modern browser I can imagine that it is liberating ju
by fauigerzigerk 11y ago
>One of the liberating things when first developing a Web App for iOS was only having to support a single modern browser
I can imagine that it is liberating just as it would be liberating to develop exclusively for any other browser. But what is the use case for that? I wasn't even aware that "iOS Web Developers" exist.
- adamlett 11y agoI think the point was that iOS as a platform presents far fewer challenges to web developers than Android does because of the multitude of different browsers people use on Android. PPK has written at length about the problem with all the different versions and forks of Chrome that exist on Android here: http://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2015/02/chrome_continue.html http://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2015/02/chrome_conti... and here: http://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2015/02/counting_chromi.html http://www.quirksmode.org/blog/archives/2015/02/counting_chr...
- fauigerzigerk 11y agoI get that, but if I create a web app, I have to support all kinds of different browsers anway, so how does it help to know that iOS users are only going to be using Safari? I'm not aware of any website that is exclusively used by iOS users.
- adamlett 11y agoYes, excactly. Since you have to support all the browsers, you should be thankful that there aren't more of them. On iOS you only have one browser to test against and you're done. OTOH it's practically impossible to exhaustively test on Android. Being a web developer I know which of those two platforms I wish were more like the other.