[atonse]

I don’t quite understand this argument. Can you give me a couple examples of Safari holding back major parts of web design? Or is it more obscure stuff like some webGL engine?

Because I use Safari specifically for privacy reasons and it also used to never trigger my fans to full speed just to play videos, like Chrome. I also have read that while Safari does tend to take longer, their implementations tend to be more polished. But this was more like a tweet so take that anecdata with a grain of salt.

[danielheath]

I often try to use a feature and it doesn't work properly on one browser. It's nearly always mobile safari. This week, I've dealt with scroll-snap (which makes URL anchors work correctly with a sticky header) being supported but only for some layouts (every other browser works).

Today I spent hours debugging why pages with a particular iframe embed would log you out of the parent site on Safari / iOS. Possibly because the same first-party resource was requested from both outside and inside the frame? Not sure yet.

If you attempt to use localStorage from a private tab on safari, it reports that it's present and working, but raises an exception on any access (every other platform either does not expose localStorage in private tabs, or clears it after).

[vbezhenar]

Absence of push notifications makes it impossible to develop a lots of web apps.

Also more user-friendly way to install desktop shortcut would help tremendously to make web apps more popular. Of course Apple is not interested with that, but it's still sad.

[darthmaim]

Here are some examples: https://infrequently.org/2021/04/progress-delayed/

[speedgoose]

An an user, safari is great. Has a web developer, safari is hell.