Interesting but I disagree, yes Safari has a lot of missing features & stuff behind prefix but it has also a lot of pure rendering bugs and that's where the "if safari" comes into play and the analogy with IE comes from. And Safari is still an outlier compared to the other modern browsers.
I've experienced zIndex bugs, border radius bugs, form bugs, svg bugs and even dom event bugs.
I've ran into issues with every browser I developed for (even to the point of the computer freezing in some Chrome bugs I remember) and have never felt like Safari was as annoying or frustrating as IE was back in the day (and _that_ is the main comparison being made in this post). In my 20+ years of front-end development with work supporting millions of users worldwide I can say without doubt, IE was much much worse than Safari is.
I don't know how many of the people making this comparison actually had to deal with IE 5.5/6/7/8 support on a daily basis back in those days or what exotic things people are doing now.
Safari does feel like it has more rendering bugs yes, but I did also say in my comment that I believe Safari should have more frequent updates because bugs hang around longer. But then again, you are still not guaranteed that people always have the latest version anyway, even in Chrome.
I just don't get this comparison to IE and this is the first time I thought I'd comment on it, but in the future I will not do it again. The era of IE sucks, but IE was IE and Safari is Safari, Firefox is Firefox and almost all other browsers are Chrome. We are all allowed our own views on this and I should not have commented at all I guess.
Happy new year!
*: p.s. Apple should allow different browser engines on iOS
I've experienced zIndex bugs, border radius bugs, form bugs, svg bugs and even dom event bugs.