I am yet to meet competent developers who have ever given two hoots about “super fastest browser #1!!” blog posts over feature completed-ness / spec-compliance.
I hope the C-level exec at Apple sees this and realises why more devs are going to go with Edge (lol) / Firefox support: the sales guys are running Apple now.
It was not just that IE was broken in all sort of very odd ways, or that it was incompatible with the rest (and standard), or that it was essentially a monopoly.
It was all three. So a site built for IE would not work at all in other browsers if it used anything remotely advanced (and advanced back then was users events), you had to support IE to live (on anything but demo site), and doing so was hell on earth because the bugs went from top to bottom (the browser’s memory management had to be worked around, and there were no memory profiler, hell the debuggers only worked half the time).
Not that it’s any fun encountering a buggy browser, even less so when a feature is so broken you’d be better off if it were not supported and just did nothing or used a fallback and you now have to coerce it into that, and it does seem to be a recurring issue of safari.
But it’s no IE, at this point you’d need malice aforethought to get there.
I mean, I don't think it's even close to beign modern day IE. Perfect? Far from it but definitely not as much of a pain as IE
This is the endgame of a monopoly. Other people start demanding others stop fairly competing with you.
I'd like to think I'm a competent dev.
I use Safari as my daily driver because the difference in performance/battery life on Apple silicon is worth whatever small incompatibilities I run into. It just doesn't ever impact me on a day-to-day basis in the way that performance and battery life do.
Good engineering is all about trade-offs and this is one that doesn't even require a second thought for me.
What also is cool in Safari is to zoom into a page so that everything gets bigger which makes it easier to read text or view pictures (not sure if this is the normal zoom a site has, or something on top OS wise). But a lot of sites are breaking that behaviour now, which results in either not being able to zoom or elements overlapping in weird ways, text not staying where it should. I wonder what CSS stuff is used there.