Comment on Anon doesn't like any web browsers
casual_turtle_stew_enjoyer@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks agoYou’ve obviously never met a web developer
Comment on Anon doesn't like any web browsers
casual_turtle_stew_enjoyer@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks agoYou’ve obviously never met a web developer
efstajas@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
As a web developer, I’m ok with all browsers except Safari
Mubelotix@jlai.lu 4 weeks ago
What? I’m ok with none of them
hibsen@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
What’s up with safari? I used to dislike it but it grew on me. Seems pretty light and quick, and it doesn’t ask me to sign into it constantly.
efstajas@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
It’s totally fine to use, but it’s a pretty big pain to develop for. And you’re forced to, since it’s forced on every single iOS user (third-party browsers on iOS are essentially Safari with a custom UI due to Apple’s walled garden policies).
Safari is notorious for adopting open web standards and APIs incredibly late or not at all, leading many to believe that it’s holding back the ability for web apps to achieve more native-app like capabilities on purpose. Right now, some major APIs like Web Bluetooth and USB are not supported on iOS safari, even though they have been on Android Chrome & Firefox for years.
It also just behaves slightly differently & sometimes even explicitly off-spec compared to Chromium and Firefox engines in so many small ways that you quite often have to debug strange Safari-only bugs. It’s just incredibly annoying.
hibsen@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
This makes more sense to me. The only things I’ve ever made that have to worry about multiple web browsers are basic, static HTML pages that just need CSS and maybe a tiny bit of JS. My biggest annoyance was that it didn’t have a grid view like Firefox did.
What does the web use Bluetooth for? That sounds like a nightmare regardless of whether the browser will let it or not, lol