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What gets me is when websites don't work on Safari. Really? Like a significant portion of traffic is to iOS, it's a single browser you have to target, on millions of devices. And you couldn't even make it work there.
Web dev today is a bunch of crap.
Fair point.
I do think it's gotten a lot worse though.
As a web developer, I agree
But ensuring full compatibility with all three major engines (those being gecko, blink and webkit) is unnecessarily hard, as they have their own subset of features
For example: Webkit does not support extending built-in HTML elements using WebComponent, but Gecko and Blink do support this feature. Or Chrome being the only browser that fully supports the View Transitions API. Or webkit's CSS vendor prefixes
The list goes on and on.
You could fix most of these issues by providing polyfills, but that increases the amount of files that you have to load in order to make a feature work on other browsers.
If only there was some sort of standard... Oh wait, there is one, W3C. Idk what they are doing tho.
Safari is crap. Don't use a iPhone and expect a browser to work as it should.
And the rendering engines are quite similar since Chrome's was forked from Safari's.