Oh no, don't say that, you'll get downvoted by the hardcore Apple fans, and the "but it saves battery" or the "webkit fights browser monopoly" or the "i want to feel special so I don't agree that Safari is the new IE" crowds.
Safari has known unsolved issues from 2015 and developing anything with complex enough user interaction for iOS is just painful.
I wish Safari developers would spend their valuable time on fixing the horror Safari is. It's literally the new Internet Explorer. If you work on building web apps with complex interactions, animations, etc, you get to hate Safari with all your heart in a very short amount of time.
There are things they've done that are amazing, and which I respect (like JavaScriptCore), but overall Safari is the worst popular browser. I don't get how people can stand it, but again I don't get how people can stand iOS either.
Uhm this is exactly what :has is, fixing the ‘horror’. This is such an outdated idea, the WebKit team have been killing it the past 12-18 months as evidenced by the efforts on interop 2022. https://wpt.fyi/interop-2022
A vanishingly small percentage of the web I make regular use of has any legitimate need for anything beyond what web browsers were capable of 4-6 years ago. In the odd case that I run into a site that’s broken in Safari, I can usually find an alternative that works fine in a few seconds.
What has the biggest impact on me as a user isn’t the quantity of bells and whistles the browser’s engine has, but how efficient it is because nobody likes battery vampire apps and how much the browser tilts the balance of control in favor of the user, because third parties on the web are best treated as adversarial until proven otherwise.
Chrome provides a nice experience for devs, but its user experience continues to slip.
