The author may be a right-wing fellow. Nonetheless, the data he exposes are taken from official Mozilla docs.

    • Lionir [he/him]@beehaw.org
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      I find WebKit to be a fine browser engine most of the time.

      It is worth mentioning that the WebKit port for GTK does not support WebRTC and that it is not supported at all by Apple. It’s an effort by Igalia, one person from Red Hat and volunteers.

      There’s also essentially no WebKit browser for windows. WebKit is often slow at adopting new web technologies as well.

      All that to say - WebKit is not the example of a success outside of helping big corporations to make their own big proprietary browsers.

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      All I know is that as a frontend Dev, features in safari are about 5-10 years late to the party. the world’s first trillion dollar company is years behind a non profit…

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          This is something I deal with daily. Safari has awful support for new-ish features. Combine that with a requirement to support a couple versions back like my company does and you’re basically limited to what the web was 10 years ago. Safari is the new IE.

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            Safari is the new IE.

            From a feature perspective, yes. But with the dominance of Google’s Chrome and them pushing awful web API’s I’d say the title of “the new IE” goes to Chrome.

          • 🦊 OneRedFox 🦊@beehaw.org
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            Hardware and the fact that their products became bourgie status symbols. Their aesthetic game is on point and UI is fairly polished, but their software can be super limited in annoying ways.