Post #3400801
2026-06-25 18:13 UTC
@lisamelton@mastodon.social
Congrats.
I had some gripes with Safari in the '10s. It always seemed to blocking powerful modern progressive web apps somewhere every time you tried. Very limited localstorage implementation, difficult manifest handling over online states, limited SVG support, very, very, very late support of webRTC.
I always had the nagging suspicion this was by design to keep people paying the app store tax.
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@endrift@social.treehouse.systems 2026-06-26 11:55
@gvenema@fairmove.net @lisamelton@mastodon.social From my experience working on the WebKit team at Apple (2011–2014), it always seemed like Google had an army of engineers working on Chrome and we had a dozen or so people working on WebKit. We just didn't have the workforce to keep up after they forked. There were other contributors but for the most part they were doing platform integrations, not core features. Was kinda depressing.