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Web devs have to deal with Safari bugs all the time, that's why you don't tend to see them. Maybe now that there's going to be other browser engines on iOS, we can show nice "please open this page in Firefox" banners and force Apple to stop undermining their browser to push native apps.

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Those of us that remember "This page works best in Internet Explorer 5" are shivering at your statement. I love Firefox and use it as my primary browser on my desktop. But suggesting to users that they should use that instead of fixing issues in your site feels bad.

There's a subtle but important distinction between "a browser misbehaves and incorrectly renders my compliant site, and I refuse to make my site wrong to satisfy it" and "a browser doesn't render my malformed site the way I want it to and I refuse to fix it because other browser (incorrectly) renders my site how I want".

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