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by saithir 179 days ago
I think people like to imagine it's not viable because the most commonly known adblocker refuses to release the version for it. Negative news somehow stick better.

Fortunately it's not the only one and for example Adguard works perfectly fine.
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array_key_first 178 days ago
Safari is even further behind chrome in feature set than Firefox.
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rsync 178 days ago
… which is a positive, right?
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array_key_first 178 days ago
Maybe, maybe not. It's getting dangerously close to the modern day IE, where some websites just don't work right and everyone has to do arcane shit to make their websites cross platform.

It's also a closed source browser developed by Apple. It's not competing with Firefox. Everyone contemplating switching to safari over Firefox are not being honest - they're not even on the same playing field.

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swiftcoder 178 days ago
> It's getting dangerously close to the modern day I.E.

This line gets thrown around a lot, but if you look at the supported features, Safari is honestly pretty up-to-date on the actual ratified web standards.

What it doesn't tend to do is implement a bunch of the (often ad-tech focused) drafts Google keeps trying to push through the standards committee

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array_key_first 178 days ago
I would agree, except for CSS. You still see checks for webkit in CSS fairly regularly.
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danaris 178 days ago
The only way you can possibly view Safari as "the modern day IE" is if you consider the authoritative source for What Features Should Be Supported to be Chrome.

You should probably think about that for a bit, in light of why IE was IE back in the day.

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littlestymaar 178 days ago
> The only way you can possibly view Safari as "the modern day IE" is if you consider the authoritative source for What Features Should Be Supported to be Chrome.

No. Safari is the modern IE in the sense that it's the default browser on a widely used OS, and it's update cycle is tied to the update of the OS itself by the user, and it drags the web behind by many years because you cannot not support its captive user-base.

It's even worse than IE in a sense, because Apple prevents the existence of an alternative browser on that particular OS (every non-safari OSes on iOS are just a UI on top of Safari).

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danaris 178 days ago
> drags the web behind by many years

But this can only be by comparison to something. And Apple is very good at keeping Safari up to date on the actual standards. You know—the thing that IE was absolutely not doing, that made it a scourge of the web.

So if it's not Chrome, what is your basis for comparison??

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