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by nerdjon 150 days ago
I have never understood the complaints about Safari and at this point it feels more like parroting than anything grounded in facts.

Unless I am using Windows (which I use for anything except gaming sparingly) Safari is my primary browser on my Mac and I stick with it on my iPhone and iPad. It does what I need it to do and I never have issues as a user. It works with the plugins I need it to work with (mostly 1Password).

I am sure there are genuine issues with the browser just like with any software, but it is already past "decent" and does its job.
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gabeidx 149 days ago
Decent is a positive adjective [0]. My comment was not a complaint, I am glad to see Safari improve.

[0]: https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/decent

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jimmaswell 150 days ago
As a web dev, Safari is like the new IE6 - it does everything slightly wrong and I have to sprinkle my code with special cases for it because too many people use it to ignore. This modal scrolls properly in Firefox and Chrome? Not Safari, better add a million extra css attributes and maybe even some JS for fun to deal with it. This CSS parses exactly the same in Firefox and Chrome? Not Safari, they decided to Think Different. My workplace's frontend codebase is absolutely polluted with /* Safari fix: ... */

https://www.google.com/search?q=examples%20of%20code%20that%...

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