An Abridged History of Safari Showstoppers - Webventures

0x1C3B00DA · 2 days ago

An Abridged History of Safari Showstoppers - Webventures

@Kissaki · 1 day ago

Damn, that’s a long list. Looks like a lot of work to collect and prepare.

I was looking for more of an overview of it and selected them from the headlines:

2014: Completely broken IndexedDB implementation
2015: 100vh (100% viewport height) means a different thing in mobile Safari to everywhere else
2016: <body /> with overflow:hidden CSS is scrollable on iOS
2017: Safari incorrectly blocks localhost as mixed content when accessed from an HTTPS page
2018: OS 11.2.2 broke WebAssembly
2018: Safari 11.1 broke MessageChannels
2019: Audio stops playing when standalone web app is no longer in foreground
2019: PWA in iOS uses old assets after publishing new servicerWorker/assets
2020: Add Fullscreen API to iOS (& display fullscreen)
2021: Safari shipped blob.stream(), crashes with a NULL pointer exception
2021: Appending an element to the shadow DOM in many cases hard crashes the browser process
2021: LocalStorage is broken when a page is open in more than one tab
2021: IndexedDB APIs hangs indefinitely on initial page load
2021: Fetch request streaming is implemented just enough to pass feature detection, but it doesn’t actually work
2021: IndexedDB API information leaks
2023: Notifications API: support for the badge, icon, image and tag options
2024: On-screen keyboard does not show up for installed web apps (PWAs) when focusing a text input of any kind
2008: Focus events for non-input elements behave differently in Safari to every other browser
2012: Using border-image with border-style: none is rendered completely wrong
2014: WebKit doesn’t calculate padding-top/-bottom: n% correctly
2014: Pointer events should allow for device-pixel accuracy
2017: Support for 120Hz requestAnimationFrame
2018: Some Fetch requests incorrectly completely skip the service worker
2020: Safari 14 shipped a broken replaceChildren() method, which caused glitches in Construct.
2020: When leaving current scope of PWA, back button incorrectly reads “Untitled”
2020: Safe-area-inset-bottom still set when keyboard appears
2020: Support for background-attachment: local has suddenly completely disappeared
2021: IntersectionObserver and ResizeObserver fire in incorrect order
2021: Mousemove events fire when modifier keys are pressed, even if the mouse isn’t moved
2021: Scrolling in home screen apps incorrectly latches to document
2022: WebM Opus support is inconsistent in Safari
2022: Installed web app with viewport-fit cover causes overscroll issues, breaks position fixed and -webkit-fill-available
2023: iPadOS: Viewport doesn’t correctly restore after dismissing software keyboard for installed web apps
2023: iPadOS: window loses focus when dismissing the keyboard, breaks Page Lifecycle API
2024: Svh and lvh are incorrect on iOS in third party browsers

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@onlinepersona · 1 day ago

Malus just bring Malus. I bet this is done on purpose because PWAs mean circumvention of the app store and lost profits for Apple. Hopefully users in the EU will be free of that once the EU commission finally sues the hell out of Malus for breaching DMA rules.

Malus is not your friend.

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