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saagarjhayesterday at 1:36 PM1 replyview on HN

Why do you keep conflating bug fixes with new platform features?


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simondotauyesterday at 2:07 PM

Because such bugs were predominantly associated with then-new platform features.

As a web developer myself, I appreciate the frustration with Safari's flexbox bugs of a decade ago and viewport bugs more recently. I also remember being endlessly frustrated by Chrome bugs too, like maddening scroll anchoring behaviours, subpixel rounding inconsistencies, and position:fixed bugs which were broken for so long than the bugs became the de-facto standard which other browsers had to implement. All browsers have bugs. To suggest that Safari was uniquely bad is to view history with Chrome-tinted glasses.