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by noisebleed
5235 days ago
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You honestly think they "deliberately break the web browsers in their mobile devices" and are "making it actively difficult for web developers"? Most of my professional work over the last two years has been targeted at mobile webkit, usually Safari, and while I have frequently felt the urge to defenestrate an iPad due to some weird quirk, I never reached the conclusion that someone had consciously crippled them. Mobile Safari's DOM rendering is all sorts of wacky and requires a frustrating amount of non-intuitive workarounds, but with regards to the orientation issues you mention, browsers haven't really had to deal with rotating displays until fairly recently. So, I can understand not liking the implementation decisions someone made, but attributing it to malice seems a bit absurd. .. and unless there are some undocumented tricks I haven't come across, I've found web development for Android devices to be a truly unholy mess, significantly worse than Safari. |
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In the sense that they have broken stuff because of decisions they consciously made, yes.
I doubt their motivation was to do that. I'm 90% sure that it was just an unintended (or worse than expected) side effect of trying to do something sensible with sites that weren't designed with mobile browsing in mind.
I do, however, reserve a 10% skepticism allowance for any potentially hostile policy adopted by certain big companies, including Apple and Google, that do have form when it comes to adopting (or turning a blind eye to) ethically shady practices that conveniently help the business model that actually makes them money.