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The GitHub website is slow on Safari

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446 points talboren | 1 comments | 27 Aug 25 09:43 UTC | HN request time: 0.224s | source
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yrds96 ◴[27 Aug 25 14:32 UTC] No.45040269[source]▶
Isn't the opposite? No one in this thread even cogitating how bad Safari is in terms of performance and supporting web standards? There's in one even partially blaming both. Github isn't the best example of a fast website, but if you can run it in Chrome and Firefox, even on rudimentary browsers like Palemoon (I tested) on decent hardware (even mobile), there's something clearly wrong on Safari.
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1. cratermoon ◴[27 Aug 25 15:48 UTC] No.45041290[source]▶
Safari is behind on web standards, but often those standards are things designed and implemented by the Chrome team and pushed into standards later. It's the Chromification of the web, where the standard is "whatever chrome does". It's much like the era of "Designed For IE" or "Works best in Netscape 2.3", but now there's a thrice-convicted monopolist in de facto control of the standard.