{"id":4162,"date":"2024-10-10T15:30:19","date_gmt":"2024-10-10T20:30:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/?p=4162"},"modified":"2024-10-11T17:05:48","modified_gmt":"2024-10-11T22:05:48","slug":"safari-%c2%b1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/safari-%c2%b1\/","title":{"rendered":"Safari \u00b1"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>There are folks that think Safari is the worst current browser. Safari is the new IE, they say. You wouldn&#8217;t have to convince Alex Russell who regularly points to the fact that there isn&#8217;t browser choice on iOS, which is <a href=\"https:\/\/toot.cafe\/@slightlyoff\/113272519720854555\">direct fuel for the app store<\/a>, so keeping the web down is a business strategy. <a href=\"https:\/\/ios404.com\/#autofocus\">ios404.com<\/a> points out 58 missing APIs on iOS WebKit. Roderick E.J.H. Gadellaa has itemized all the <a href=\"https:\/\/webventures.rejh.nl\/blog\/2024\/history-of-safari-show-stoppers\/#anchor--showstoppers-by-year\">&#8220;Safari Showstoppers&#8221; by year<\/a>, which is why Alex tends to call this a &#8220;rolling problem&#8221;. Nicolas Magand <a href=\"https:\/\/thejollyteapot.com\/2024\/09\/14\/is-safari-now-a-bad-web-browser\">thinks Safari is going downhill<\/a> just for regular usage, like watching YouTube. <a href=\"https:\/\/birchtree.me\/blog\/everyone-says-chrome-devastates-mac-battery-life-but-does-it-i-tested-for-36-hours-to-find-out\/\">Matt Birchler has done a bit of science<\/a> which directly combats the folk wisdom that Chrome is a battery hog. Chrome is actually <em>more <\/em>efficient than Safari, so this data says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>That paints a negative pictures of Safari, but it&#8217;s not terribly hard to picture a positive picture as well, pointing to years and years of accelerated releases, forging ahead on useful platform features. Seeing cross-document View Transitions <a href=\"https:\/\/webkit.org\/blog\/15978\/release-notes-for-safari-technology-preview-204\/\">get released so quickly<\/a> after starting life as a Chrome-led project, for instance, to me is a great thing. I have doubts that there is an actual internal conspiracy at Apple to keep the web down, while at the same time wishing they&#8217;d loosen up the iOS browser choice restrictions and invest even more in Safari development.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are folks that think Safari is the worst current browser. Safari is the new IE, they say. You wouldn&#8217;t have to convince Alex Russell who regularly points to the fact that there isn&#8217;t browser choice on iOS, which is direct fuel for the app store, so keeping the web down is a business strategy. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4168,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"sig_custom_text":"","sig_image_type":"featured-image","sig_custom_image":0,"sig_is_disabled":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[247,55],"class_list":["post-4162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-beat","tag-safari","tag-web-standards"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/up-and-down-1.jpeg?fit=1500%2C891&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4162"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4162\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4183,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4162\/revisions\/4183"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4168"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/frontendmasters.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4162"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}