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by throwayyy479087 1177 days ago
His complaints are very well outlined. They are a bit niche due to his use case, but they certainly are real, breaking changes out of nowhere.

Standards compliance really is the name of the game, and I wish people like GP had more pull to force Apple to make these reasonable changes.
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lucideer 1177 days ago
If you think this you haven't read the linked bug reports.

His second one in particular is his app relying on unspecified implementation quirks - the Safari devs are responsive due to a desire to be more compatible with Chrome's quirks, not because they've failed to conform to spec.

His first bug report is just lazy and devoid of any detail - completely relies on the Safari team to do the work of debugging his app for him.

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AshleysBrain 1177 days ago
I credited the Apple developers with doing a good job in the blog. The point is Apple's policies end up turning what should be a routine bug fix in to a total nightmare.

I've filed dozens of issues with Apple and many of them go in to great detail. However when you're pushed for time and dealing with multiple potential emergencies, you can't always manage much more than a "heads up, this looks wrong" type issue. In the case of the first bug, it was indeed a real problem with Safari and it was Apple's responsibility to fix it. Given that Apple are a trillion-dollar company with thousands of employees, and we have a handful of people in an office in south-west London, I think it's reasonable that Apple does more of the heavy lifting investigating Safari issues anyway. Ultimately it's up to Apple to make Safari a high-quality browser, not us, although we still do our bit with bug reports where we can.

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