And with this, finally certain people can stop saying Safari is the new IE6 because it is lagging badly.
Because that title is reserved for a certain behemoth that enjoys the same popularity as IE6 once had and which IMO is probably more dangerous to the free web than IE6 was when EU reacted.
It's not about it lagging behind it's about it requiring more special consideration compared to the other big players.
Like styling scroll bars in FireFox. But more often it feels like Safari is the special needs browser.
Sometimes it's because it lags on features. Sometimes it implements a spec differently. Maybe it's the websocket bug of 2021/2022 that took forever to fix(was it?!) because their weird update cycles.
If you're developing for Chrome first, it's hardly surprising that a browser made by a company which takes a much more conservative approach with user privacy and device efficiency isn't going to just adopt every half-baked API the Chrome team throws out there.
Does Safari lack support for some actual standards? Sure. No browser is "feature complete". The difference is, a good chunk of what people complain about, are draft features, made available in Chrome because Google's whole business model is "put everything in a browser, and track the bajeezus out of it".
It is sad to watch MS (Windows as a whole; they seem to have forgotten they should be an OS) and Google (Chrome in particular*) compete for title of "most widely deployed spyware".
But IE6 was not spyware, it was a browser that was maddening to use, and purposely anti standards. That title, currently, is theirs alone.
* It is really no contest - Chrome is king. But even Google's little things - G-Fonts loads JS to track users on websites, and Android SDK installs an updater that also spawns nameless DLLs that run in the background and regularly send info home, would be impressive for any other spyware app...
Because that title is reserved for a certain behemoth that enjoys the same popularity as IE6 once had and which IMO is probably more dangerous to the free web than IE6 was when EU reacted.