[butterfi]

Rather then just downvote you, let me say that I (20+ years webdev) and my colleagues use our audience to determine what browsers we support, not our personal preferences. My job is to provide visitors to my clients websites with the best possible experience, not judge them on their technical choices.On the site I support, hundreds of thousands visits a year are from Safari users. Based on your comment ("deal with it"), you pretty clearly are not the kind of web developer I would ever hire. Or your engineer friends.

[exelius]

Yeah, the choice of which browsers to support is a business requirement informed by marketing, not a technical decision. Business requirements should inform the selection of technology, not the other way around. When you let technical requirements drive your business requirements, you end up with a product that is a poor fit to user's needs. It's hard enough to get users for a new product without engineering imposing arbitrary technical limitations.

[isaacremuant]

Without having practically any serious web dev experience (just some minor freelance here and there) I can imagine a world where you both are right.

They might've done the math and realize that the amount of safari users they might gain is not worth the cost of the extra development (time & money).

You obviously do.