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by nikanj 6 days ago
It’s impressive that pinch-zooming reddit.com in-out-in-out has reliably crashed ios safari for at least a few years already. One would assume Apple gets telemetry from iphone default browser crashes, and reddit seems important enough to warrant a fix
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This was fixed but then reverted. No further updates 3 months later. https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=305622

Not sure how this comment is related to Safari Technology Preview, though, which is Mac-only.

The only way for commoners to reach the actual devs is HN or similar, bug trackers are as useful as a wishing well.

The odds of Safari devs reading the comments on a Safari-related HN piece is quite high, and reporting long-standing bugs here might actually get fixes

See also: the biweekly ”Microsoft closed my account and is stonewalling me” post here. Those reliably manage to break the customer service blockade

> The only way for commoners to reach the actual devs is HN or similar, bug trackers are as useful as a wishing well.

This is untrue for the WebKit open source project. Many of the bugs I've reported via the Bugzilla have been fixed.

Kind of a confusing title, but maybe it means more to the WebKit team. I don't think I've ever seen jetsam used as a verb before.
On the other hand, Reddit is trying so hard to funnel users to their app that this bug might solve itself at some point.