Convince me that Safari is not the new IE. The fact that Apple makes such epicly good hardware and epicly stupid browser engine policies (not allowing browser engines other than webkit) remains the single biggest threat to the web as a universal app platform.
used to make epic hardware, that lasted years without issues, these days build quality is such that keys in a brand new laptop just randomly repeat by themselves! On a slightly separate topic, I`d love a well researched documentary on why, after owning the market, Microsoft decided to let Internet Explorer flounder with no updates TWICE. Once before Firefox, then with IE11 before Edge. Repeating mistakes.
A teammate and I use Safari in our dev school. I like to use the devtool, some cool feats but yes things getting hard when you start to make something more user friendly. Too bad. preventScroll was added to WebKit less than two months after that tweet Its obviously on purpose.
iOS Safari is a nightmare for web apps. Have just given up.
If Apple were all that interested in privacy, they`d open up competition to browser engines that tackle the issue far better. I think the Firefox devs tried this years ago when compiling a version of Firefox for iOS and then getting an immediate app store denial.
Instead they "protect your privacy" by crippling the web and everyone builds native apps and stuff like this happens: This is one of the things I support the government going after private industry 100% The browser in iOS is and Apple controls it 100%. They make it bad to encourage people to make apps and put them in the store, PWA might be removed anyday they feel like it.
