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If you are leaving out Safari you are not testing on 95% of the browsers. At least market share wise, which is the only metric that makes sense.

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You are correct, but if you don't own a Mac/iPhone, you cannot test on Safari.

You can use services like Browserstack, but they are expensive and slow.

There's workarounds, such as browserstack.

How close is iOS Safari to OSX Safari?

I own both, and an Android phone. Unfortunately, I don't own a memory checker for HN. I test with Safari as well, I just forgot to add it to the list.

Have you considered adding a comment linter to your CI process for posting to HN? Or am I the only one with an end-to-end K8 driven process for comment quality?

I know this is sarcasm and I also know we’ll see a Show HN with just this in a few weeks (AI blockchain driven!)

Well ... it is a good idea.

When I reread some of my comments, I realize that I often drop words. A fair number of times the meaning is the opposite of what I intended to say. Those cases usually contradict the rest of my post so people should be able to figure out the intended meaning, but it would be nice if it didn't happen in the first place.

I’ve noticed that iPhone autocomplete has at least some rudimentary intelligence built in - at the “Spell a word a certain way a few times and it begins to not correct it” level. It’d be nice for that to improve (instead of always replacing “an” with “and”).

Microsofts SwiftKey has the same, it's incredible. And according to the app you can (and I have) opt out from sharing my typing data.

Whwn I first encountered SwiftKey I just didn't understand how it could be as good as it is at predicting what I want to type. Even switching between Swedish and English (just by typing words from either language).

Whenever I use someone else's phone (to show them how to use something) I feel handicapped, I guess I'm clumsy on the keyboard.

As the author, I resist the idea it was a good idea.

You can test with webkit though which is almost the same.

You can - use another WebKit-based browser, such as Web[1].

[1] https://flathub.org/apps/details/org.gnome.Epiphany

Not a good substitute, there's so much more than the rendering engine to safari quirks.

What about the behaviour of keyboard popup?

You can with a VM

Legally?

Shhhh

Sorry

Until a court says otherwise I will continue to act as though it’s fair use. (Provided you’re not selling Hackintosh machines, which has gone to court but is clearly different from a personal setup.)

Or fire up a Mac VPS on one of the billions of hosts that provide them. AWS has em now.

Beware that they have a 24-hour minimum on pricing so going in to test something for 5 minutes will cost you $26.

I don't understand why Apple wants to prevent people using MacOS in VMs. The performance is so bad that no one in their right mind would use it as a daily driver, but people are using it to build/release software.

More software available on their platform should be a good thing, no?

Professionals will still buy machines for convenience (building/testing is a lot faster when every click doesn't take seconds) and pay the Developer Program fee, and us open-source developers can make our software available to Apple users, or make sure it works on Safari. Why make it illegal?

Maybe to preserve the illusion that Mac OS is inherently part of the computers Apple sells as opposed to a separate product that's linked to them artificially?

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