Safari is the new IE to me, and he reinforces my point.
His example is that Safari opts not to implement web standards in favor of those things that make Apple specific websites better.
This is the exact behavior that created the stimga of Microsoft's IE. We need more standards and collaboration and less browser vendors working to create their own specific experiences.
As someone who builds a video-based site often used on mobile devices: I don’t think that really matters. Not all sites using HTML5 video elements are just wrapping a single video in a player and some supporting content, the way you see on sites like YouTube or Vimeo. There are numerous applications for video where that content is integrated with other content on the page and not the only star of the show. There are standards for how HTML elements are supposed to work, and work together. And Apple is completely ignoring those standards in this case, which makes it literally impossible to provide the kinds of presentation styles and UIs we should be able to for visitors using iPhones.
On another note, IMO, Safari has the worst support for printing webpage elements to scale. IE 9 is actually great for printing support. Browsers suck at this in general -- have you tried printing a 2cm square (in the physical world) cross browser and page size? Really difficult.
Not to mention as the article says, support for IndexedDB that isn't completely broken and Workers.
It seems like every time I create a webpage or webapp I have to fix it on Safari. These are just a few annoying examples I've encountered in day-to-day work.
IMO, a larger problem with Chrome is it randomly regressing and breaking crap before fixing it in the next release.
[1] http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12496144/can-you-autoplay...
In a perfect world, it would be a valuable feature. In a world governed by the attention economy, it invites abuse. If I wanted to have websites come on all blaring sound at full volume and distract me with video playing, I'd buy an $50 Android tablet.
Even on desktop I use a youtube-dl/mpv setup to watch web videos in an external player.
If that's the worst spec violation example you can come up with then your argument is weak.
Agreed, but if the author says "Chrome is the new IE6", which is a hyperbole, then saying that Safari is much more "like" IE6 than Chrome makes sense as a response.