I give Apple a hard time. That’s mostly due to how they treat the web on their own mobile devices. Though iOS ostensibly supports the ability for websites to be added to the homescreen, they make it so difficult for users to do, the functionality is practically worthless. It’s dispiriting to see the web so hamstrung by that decision. The Webkit team has come in for other criticism too. For a while there, Safari was lagging so far behind in features that people were calling it the new Internet Explorer. Ouch! But credit where credit is due. The upcoming version 27 of Safari is looking very good. That’s not because it’s at the cutting edge of the latest web standards. Quite the opposite. Most of the changes listed for this release are bug fixes. That’s what I want to acknowledge and applaud. Far too often a browser will rush out an implementation of an exciting new web standard that gets plenty of attention. But that initial implementation is rarely 100% correct. Then the next release…
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