It’s not. We’re now in the same situation we were in 20 years ago with Internet Explorer, where other browsers are measured by “does it act like Chrome?”
Yes, it does have bugs and shortcomings – but all browsers do. When a predominantly Chrome developer finds something that doesn’t work in Chrome, the perception is that the functionality is not ready for primetime; when they find something that doesn’t work in Safari, the perception is that Safari is bad; when they find something that doesn’t work in Firefox… ha, just kidding, they don’t test in Firefox. Firefox is the new Opera.
Try making a game for Safari and then tell me it's not hard. It's definitely not just a case of different browser quirks. Safari is so far behind Chrome and Firefox that it's not worth supporting.
Apple genuinely have some of the weirdest “fans” I’ve ever seen.
To sit there and try to tell an audience of largely web developers that Safari’s reputation as the new IE is totally unfounded as though they don’t know for themselves exactly what the last ten years were like themselves.
Or as though multiple governments across the globe didn’t just spend the past couple of years opening multiple antitrust investigations looking at what a problem Safari had become.
No… apparently the problem is just you and your perceptions and whatever other weird gaslighting that seems to come with these defences.
It’s not. We’re now in the same situation we were in 20 years ago with Internet Explorer, where other browsers are measured by “does it act like Chrome?”
Yes, it does have bugs and shortcomings – but all browsers do. When a predominantly Chrome developer finds something that doesn’t work in Chrome, the perception is that the functionality is not ready for primetime; when they find something that doesn’t work in Safari, the perception is that Safari is bad; when they find something that doesn’t work in Firefox… ha, just kidding, they don’t test in Firefox. Firefox is the new Opera.