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by nneonneo 1454 days ago
As parent stated, Google can simply neglect to make their apps work well in Safari. They’ve done so in the past; GMail on Firefox was nigh-unusable due to a raft of dumb bugs for a long time, and it still uses substantially more CPU and memory than literally any other tab I have open on my browser. Right now they have to make an effort to support WebKit (Safari); as soon as they can push Blink (Chrome) to users, that motivation will go away.
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IX-103 1454 days ago
To be fair, it's not like Safari is free. Should site owners have to pay Apple to make sure that their website shows up well in Safari?

That seems like it creates perverse incentives for Apple to keep Safari "broken".

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simondotau 1454 days ago
In a discussion about encouraging browser diversity, are you seriously arguing that it’s an unreasonable burden on web developers to ensure their websites work on more than one browser engine?
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