[whatever_dude]

I agree in essence, and I personally hate how they tend to handicap mobile Safari, but the recent announcement of WebRTC and WebAssembly support (including mobile!) means they're catching up fast, and maybe changing their approach to web technology.

[alwillis]

I believe that’s a short-sighted view. The past year or so, the Safari/WebKit teams have been killin’ it. I use Mobile Safari a lot each day and I can tell you it’s not handicapped.

[whatever_dude]

I'm curious if you do Mobile Safari development, however.

I don't believe it's a short-sighted view. I think it's quite the opposite; my opinion comes from from spending years doing (web) development for it.

Their focus has always been on things that matter little (they were by far the first to implement `backdrop-filter`) while still keeping important things severely broken (as `position: fixed`) and messing with things that should work in a pretty obvious manner anywhere else (like overflow scrolling).

WebAssembly and WebRTC are the opposite of it. "Last year or so", maybe, but it'll take more than one year of good work for me to look at the team at a good light.