Why? I use it daily as my primary browser. I am a software developer.
Anytime I enter a discussion about this, I get a lot of responses that are _completely irrelevant to me_ about plugins or ... rendering? or whatever other stuff I honestly can't even remember. None of that stuff matters to me. Safari is a great browser - it's simple, fast, and the only annoying thing about it is there are sites that will display modals saying I should use a modern browser like Chrome. Get real.
If you dismiss Safari as a 'real' browser, your opinion loses credibility to me. I honestly wonder if you've ever used it, or are hopping on some bandwagon about it.
The problem with Safari from the web developer viewpoint is that it constantly doing something different. There was a horrible time back in early 200x years when we needed to check our HTML and CSS in all the browsers. Today this is mostly over: 99% of layout and scrips are behaving the same in Chrome, Mozilla and both Microsoft IE and Edge. Except for Safari. It is especially annoying for devs working on Linux or Windows machines: we need to have a separate Mac machine to debug Safari issues, and it is twice annoying to be forced to deal with MacOS/Apple special ways of implementing UI/UX.
You helped illustrate my point though - I don't care at all what you have to do to do your job as a user using a browser. Sort of like how I don't care about how the engine in a Subaru works compared to the engine in a Honda.
I agree wholeheartedly and gave up on the article when I read that line. On my Mac, Safari is quick, resource efficient, and does everything I need it to do. I'm sure there are some downsides, but to dismiss it as a joke is ridiculous.
> Safari is a joke.
Why? I use it daily as my primary browser. I am a software developer.
Anytime I enter a discussion about this, I get a lot of responses that are _completely irrelevant to me_ about plugins or ... rendering? or whatever other stuff I honestly can't even remember. None of that stuff matters to me. Safari is a great browser - it's simple, fast, and the only annoying thing about it is there are sites that will display modals saying I should use a modern browser like Chrome. Get real.
If you dismiss Safari as a 'real' browser, your opinion loses credibility to me. I honestly wonder if you've ever used it, or are hopping on some bandwagon about it.