Rediscovering WebKit Bug 322883

Last night, while going through some testing of trailmaps.app-map-generator I ran into a reproducible bug when trying to load a test maps offline (in Airplane mode): some of the map tiles wouldn’t load (see the gray lower half in the image to the right). I first expected this to be another offline-mode app bug that needed handling, but it didn’t happen on Chrome (Android) which made it really curious. Either way, I got to digging (with Claude generating a series of test scripts). After a bunch of test cases and scripts and analysis it turns out there’s a bug in WebKit! This got me excited. A real, live, reproducible bug in one of the most widely used web browser engines in the world that affects how content loads in current versions of Safari (on both iOS and macOS)?!? That felt like a pretty neat find and something great to report and get fixed. Well, it turns out this is a duplicate of bug 322883 which was reported back in August and I just had parallel discovery. A bit…

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