[emursebrian]

Do other browser vendors add special cases in their codebase for specific sites? It seems like a really bad idea.

Since around 2020, I've been working on an app that makes heavy use of audio playback and recording. I feel like I am frequently making Safari specific updates because something related media playback or recording stopped working on Safari.

I don't recall this kind of regression ever happening with Chromium-based browsers or Firefox. It feels weird in 2024 to be adding work-arounds and hacks specific web browsers and anecdotally, it seems to be getting worse.

See https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40134383. On BrowserStack, still no Safari dev tools on iOS 17.4+

[phrz]

This has existed for every web engine since time immemorial, calling out Safari is misleading. Firefox calls them "site interventions" and Chrome calls them "patches" rather than Safari/WebKit's "quirks".

[kalleboo]

And beyond web engines, operating systems have them too - both Windows and macOS have workarounds for popular apps.

[kmlx]

gpu drivers with patches for individual games.

[nightpool]

Do you have a link to the Chrome site-specific patches directory? As you can imagine, it's pretty hard to search for :P