If you think Safari is the new IE, you have definitely forgotten (or not experienced) how bad things were with IE6.

They didn’t just have a few bugs in their browser implementation or were slow to implement new features.

Basic, crucial CSS features were broken. Microsoft didn’t add any new features to the browser about a decade, basically holding the entire web back to the standards of circa year 2001 until it was finally safe to drop support for it almost a decade later.

And furthermore, Microsoft weren’t pushing users to upgrade to the latest version, so we had to support older versions of IE long after their replacements were released.

I understand wishing that Safari would be better, but luckily the Safari team is much more on the ball than the IE team ever was.