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Mobile safari… since it’s the only engine on iOS … that ends up being a good chunk of users depending on your user base probably many try to use your website on an iPhone … if blink engine was allowed by apple on iOS - safari would die tomorrow

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And if enough developers simply ignored Safari then maybe it would force Apple to either simply adhere to web standards or allow competing browser engines... Catering to them signals that their shitty behaviour is condoned.

It is the Mobile Safari engine... "simply ignored Safari" = "simply ignore iPhone users".

Apple's the one ignoring them by shipping them a broken browser.

This is the kind of thing that only web devs care about. If someone can't use your web app on their phone, they're going to never try your app again, not demand changes to the browser.

It's generally the first thing we check for when trialling new software. Does it work in Chrome/FF/Safari and on iOS/Android. If not then we won't continue the trial.

users won't see it like that

Hard for developers to ignore when the developers' manager is using an iPhone or iPad.

Who will the developers' manager blame: Apple or the developers?

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