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Android emulators for development are:

1) mostly free

2) ...even somewhat available on iPads!

Is it even necessary?

Safari seems to be the only odd one out that can't even properly implement CSS, out of the top 5 modern browsers.

I'm super glad all of these ridiculous "arguments" are being put on display.




Can I run an Android emulator on my musl-based system? Can I even run Android-Studio on OpenBSD? What about Plan9? Should I complain to Google because they don't support all the platforms under the sun?

If I want to develop with Qualcomm boards, I need to sign all sorts of NDAs, and they don't even have emulators for development. Do you think that should be illegal?

I wish we tried to honestly make the difference between what is an inconvenience ("I don't want to need a macOS system to deploy on iOS") and what is abuse ("Apple removed my app from their Store because it was competing with theirs").


Asking Apple to properly support CSS is crying abuse?

What comment did you read?

Could you reply to mine, if you're replying to me?

Specifically my reply in the context of the OP (is emulation necessary, when your web view of your OS just...does what it's supposed to?)


Safari supports CSS just fine, other than bleeding edge stuff where they lag a bit.


Maybe we agree to disagree.

https://s-hens.github.io/ios-webkit-quirks/

Feels mildly off-topic anyway.




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