Why Praising Apple's Safari for Minimum Effort is Dangerous
Abject Praise
I challenge the recent praise for Apple's Safari and iOS 27, arguing that giving credit for doing less than the minimum undermines those who consistently do more. Data from Web Platform Tests reveals that despite massive funding, WebKit lags significantly behind Firefox and Chromium in feature conformance and bug fixes. This performance gap is not accidental but instrumental in maintaining barriers to choice on iOS, forcing developers into the App Store ecosystem.
With that much cash available, WebKit should be trouncing all comers; instead, it's barely middle of the pack when it isn't losing outright.
- madibo3156
This is all very deep in the weeds, biased and opinionated, so it's hard for me to draw my own conclusion with all the missing facts that may or may not exist from Apple's side. What I will say is that it's very funny that Apple, on all of its browsers, does not currently support the squircle corner shape—a piece of flair that is iconically Apple.
- oasisbob
The author may get further if they put love of communication over love of language.
"Rubbishing" is a worthless gerund. Is rubbish even a verb anywhere?
- conartist6
Yow! Well said.