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Safari mobile has different bugs than WebKit. And even different bugs than desktop Safari itself.

As a web developer, I'm also not bothering to test anything on iOS, it's just so much pain that it's not worth it. You need to buy a dedicated device with a specific iOS version and never update it (since you can't even change the browser version on iOS) and as for the debugging tools, they suck so much that I had to resort to Firebug.js a few times in the past.

Yeah no thanks, I just test on Android and hope it's good enough on iOS.






What would your clients react after reading this?

Not sure, most end users aren't really aware on how it works on their mobile and it's not like Apple will advertise it either.

Personally I can't really do much about the sad state of the web on iOS myself anyways, I'm not a regulator. The problem goes beyond just the tech side.




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