![]() ![]() If you do that on iOS it might say Firefox, but you're still using WebKit. In Windows you could at least install Firefox. According to Apple's App Store rules: "apps that browse the web must use the appropriate WebKit framework and WebKit Javascript." Every iPhone user is a Safari/WebKit user whether they use Safari or Chrome.Īpple has a browser monopoly on iOS, which is something Microsoft was never able to achieve with IE. On iOS devices, however, that's not possible. On the desktop this doesn't matter all that much because users can always switch to Google Chrome (or even better, Vivaldi). According to the Web Platform Tests dashboard, Chrome-based browsers support 94 per cent of the test suite, and Firefox pulls off 91 per cent, but Safari only manages 71 per cent. But Safari - or more specifically the WebKit engine that powers it - is well behind the competition. Whether it's far enough behind to be considered "the new IE" is debatable and may say more about the shadow IE still casts across the web than it does about Safari. ![]() Today developers who want to use "cutting-edge" web APIs find themselves resorting to the same kind of browser-specific workarounds, but this time the browser dragging things down comes from Apple.Īpple's Safari lags considerably behind its peers in supporting web features. Microsoft's browser of yore made their lives miserable and it's only slightly hyperbolic to say it very nearly destroyed the entire internet. Feature The legacy of Internet Explorer 6 haunts web developer nightmares to this day. ![]()
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