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by andrewstuart 1016 days ago
Urgh no thanks.

We only just saw the end of IE6, don’t bring it back.

Safari is deliberately stunted, behind and incompatible.

Simple, top of the head example, where is AV1 video playback?

2 comments

I thought the tweet author responded to this exact point?

> I hear you saying: Safari is the modern ie6, but this is changing: For some reason Apple is investing on Safari again, they hired a bunch of people and things that were glaringly missing are now being shipped.

If you're not logged into twitter/X you can't read replies or any other context, so thanks for posting that but try to phrase it in a more helpful way instead of assuming we can all see that.
Thanks for pointing that out. I didn't even realize tweets had replies... the new UI is so confusing I wish we could ban tweets as sources
I had no idea, thanks!

It shows this: (why no reply count??)

> 4 Reposts / 2 Quotes / 16 Likes / 2 Bookmarks

I didn't know either.

I wonder if the reason it doesn't show a reply count is because the reply was from the same author as the first tweet so it's really a thread, not a reply. I'm not sure though, maybe Twitter never shows a reply count.

> I hear you saying: Safari is the modern ie6

Chrome is the modern ie6 period.

Very few users would want AV1 without hardware support, and Apple platforms do not have that.
You are saying this as if Apple could not add AV1 hardware decoding to their chips.

Intel, AMD and NVIDIA have figured it out 3 years ago, so can Apple.

They will have it in the A17 (announced today) and presumably iOS 17. Until then, there is no point in having it in Safari.