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I previously blogged about how Apple treat web developers with negligence when it comes to Safari [1]. This makes it looks like Apple treat other developers with negligence as well, which is unsurprising, frankly.

[1] https://www.construct.net/en/blogs/ashleys-blog-2/safari-rel...

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I solved this by basically treating the browser as legacy and "best effort", similarly as IE11 in its days.

They have a very large number of basic features broken regularly, it's not only about cutting edge stuff. I suspect their testing practices are less than stellar.

Yep, we've ended up on the same idea - we make a best effort to keep it working and if we can't we advise to switch to another browser. But tough luck on iOS, as other browser engines are banned...

It's going to be controversial but iPhone users are going to have an inferior web experience no matter what, at some point we have to say it even if it's not popular. The core business of Apple is in the apps.

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