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Is Chrome the New IE? (2023)

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281 points bentocorp | 2 comments | 17 Nov 24 22:05 UTC | HN request time: 0.419s | source
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curtis3389 ◴[18 Nov 24 02:38 UTC] No.42169252[source]▶
Mobile Safari is the new IE. Random idiosyncrasies that are poorly documented dictated by the whims of a single corporation. Apple has broken stuff multiple times in the past few years.
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wannacboatmovie ◴[18 Nov 24 02:45 UTC] No.42169289[source]▶
Then it would be quite different from IE. Microsoft was so averse to breaking backwards compatibility, that IE stopped innovating and stagnated.
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1. curtis3389 ◴[18 Nov 24 06:33 UTC] No.42170259[source]▶
I was thinking more of every web app needing one or more "if isIE() {} else {}" blocks somewhere in its codebase. Now we have the wondrous pleasure of doing the same for Apple.
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2. perardi ◴[18 Nov 24 19:29 UTC] No.42175976[source]▶
There are so many little bits of…weird in Safari.

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/WebKit_Exte...

Just this morning, I had to go down the WebKit pseudo-element rabbit hole to fix a layout bug in a very standard date-of-birth field.