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Yeah, but there are a growing number of areas where Chrome and Firefox have nearly identical behavior and Safari is the odd one out. Text overflow ellipsis inheritence handling and sticky elements in a scrolling flex container off the top of my head. But there seems to be lots of those things where it works fine in FF and Chrome but not Safari.

Further, Apple seems to show little interest in improving. About what you'd expect from somebody high on their own market position(dominant on OSX and exclusive on IOS until recently). So, a lot like IE back in the day IMHO.

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We can pick and chose whatever area we decide to view identical or diverging. The fact of the matter is this: https://web-confluence.appspot.com/#!/confluence

- Chrome: 7602 web APIs

- Firefox: 6572 web APIs

- Safari: 6335 web APIs

(Web APIs include everything, including CSS, see API catalog at the top right of the page).

If anything, Firefox is identical to Safari. This is especially evident if you look at the "browser-specific" tag

Safari is adding 150 to 400 new APIs with each release. It's harder to see this because their cadence has historically been tied to new OS releases (so, yearly, and really wish they'd increase the cadence). Meanwhile, in the latest version alone Chrome released 75 new APIs. And they release 20 to 70 new APIs in every version which they release monthly [1].

Yes, Safari may be less prioritized than other teams at Apple, but in no conceivable way, shape, or form are they "the new IE6".

[1] https://www.chromestatus.com/features/schedule

I agree "the new IE6" is a tad much, but this...

> there are a growing number of areas where Chrome and Firefox have nearly identical behavior and Safari is the odd one out.

...is definitely true for me when developing relatively simple sites. I develop in Firefox and it's been a long time since I've had to change any CSS to make it work in Chrome. Meanwhile Safari has had broken default SVG sizing for years now (unless they fixed it recently), ignores padding on <select> (so you need to set the height) and other things like that.

It's all minor, but it's annoying to deal with. Especially considering you need Apple hardware to test with.

But I can't complain too much, since I also still need to support IE11.

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