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by RobertRoberts 1687 days ago
A more reasonable approach is to code to standards then do these things:

1. Tell customers it will cost x more money to fix bugs on Safari (likely zero will pay this premium)

2. Put a notice or banner for Safari users that they are using a non standards compliant browser and they may see minor or major issues and maybe should use Firefox or Chrome.

3. Educate customers on standards and show them alternatives so they can do the same for their customers.

4. Record actual brower useage data and demonstrate the low count of actual Safari visitors and star back at #1 above with this newly applied info.

1 comments

Code to webkit's standards. Also you're forgetting iOS is largely Safari (or chrome/firefox wrapped in webkit).
Tbh, personally, I only care about Safari because iOS. If iOS user are able to use other browsers, I wouldn't really hesitate to not support Safari.
Are you saying you basically want a Chrome monoculture? It would be terrible to give that much power to Google.
They're saying that they won't put up with Apple's laziness. If Apple wants developers to target their browser, they should provide a working browser.
There's Firefox.