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Safari is far behind ? Utter nonsense.

The team simply has different priorities in particular security and battery life which means some eg service workers take longer to implement (if at all).

That's why on my Mac unlike Chrome and Firefox, Safari isn't a memory hog that chews through battery life like it's nobody's business.

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I love Safari. The battery life is fantastic and the experience is fantastic.

I find "experience" an odd word here. My browser is a tool, not a theme park or spa day. I want it to do work for me, not delight me. Perhaps I am misunderstanding "experience"?

An experience would be having a track day at Silverstone, not opening Safari.

Maybe we're both misunderstanding, but I think they meant "User Experience". Surely you agree that this is an important consideration in software development?

Yes that makes much more sense. User experience is possibly the most important thing - what else is software written for?

Thanks for clarifying.

Everything is an experience with Apple customers. Even opening their wallets wider every year.

> The team simply has different priorities in particular security

IDK, I see people linking me safari PoCs far more often than other browsers. What leads you to believe they're doing better than Chrome?

Pretty poor excuse. Apple has enough money to work on many things in parallel. So if they choke their browser development team, it means they are behind. Basically, it's barely important for them altogether.

What are you talking about ?

It's not an excuse but deliberate design choices. That is why Safari is by far the best browser on the Mac.

It's a deliberate design choice to not dedicate resources to a project? And not assigning more resources to the project makes it better? Interesting.

Well, it doesn't matter if it's deliberate or simply lack of thought because of low priority. It is behind in the end. And if it is indeed deliberate - too bad. I don't expect Apple to change for the better until their upper management is replaced. Then may be they'll start moving and even add support for free codecs and allow using alternative browsers on iOS.

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