This makes it take weeks or months to release critical bug fixes. One of the main reasons for Safari’s unflattering new title is that Apple, in its wisdom, ties its browser releases to macOS releases. So, is there any truth in this scurrilous accusation that Safari is the new IE? Why did Safari get the title of “The new IE”? With the advent of the auto-updating Internet Explorer Edge, and Microsoft also helping to rid the world of its old, pre-Edge browsers, Safari has found itself struggling for any popularity.Īccording to the Web Platform Tests dashboard, Safari jumped from 50 points to 72 on the interop 2022 dashboard with the 15.4 release. Many of us are old enough to remember the dark days of IE 6–11, when web developers embarked on a cycle of fixing bugs specifically and only for IE at the end of each development cycle. The tweet, from February 2022, makes it evident that Apple was not aware that the great, unwashed developer masses think the soul of IE 6 is inside Safari.
Poor Jen did seem a bit taken aback by the criticism. Vague hate is honestly super counterproductive.
These accusations do not hold too much water, but Safari still had a passing resemblance to the infamous Internet Explorer.īelow is the moment the penny dropped for Apple Evangelist Jen Simmons:Įveryone in my mentions saying Safari is the worst, it’s the new IE… Can you point to specific bugs & missing support that frustrate you, inhibit you making websites/apps. Conspiracy theorists speculated that Apple was deliberately crippling WebKit to protect its App Store business. PWA support pre-15.4 was limited, with no support for home screen icons and notifications. Safari, to a much lesser degree, was doing the same thing.īefore the 15.4 release, Safari - or specifically, the WebKit engine that powers it - was well behind their competition. Internet Explorer 6 prevented web developers from using many of the latest and coolest web APIs until Microsoft officially stopped supporting it in January 2016. Unfortunately for Apple, Safari has acquired that unwanted label in specific subreddits and the vitriolic Hacker News.
When will Safari finally get it together?Īp4 min read 1324 The worst possible insultĬalling a browser “the new Internet Explorer” is unequivocally something that all modern browser vendors want to avoid. Paul Cowan Follow Contract software developer.
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