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TL;DR: iOS Safari is more than an inconvenience for developers, it's the fundamental reason interoperability has been stymied in...

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[-] Kissaki@programming.dev 4 points 1 month 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:

  1. 2014: Completely broken IndexedDB implementation
  2. 2015: 100vh (100% viewport height) means a different thing in mobile Safari to everywhere else
  3. 2016: with overflow:hidden CSS is scrollable on iOS
  4. 2017: Safari incorrectly blocks localhost as mixed content when accessed from an HTTPS page
  5. 2018: OS 11.2.2 broke WebAssembly
  6. 2018: Safari 11.1 broke MessageChannels
  7. 2019: Audio stops playing when standalone web app is no longer in foreground
  8. 2019: PWA in iOS uses old assets after publishing new servicerWorker/assets
  9. 2020: Add Fullscreen API to iOS (& display fullscreen)
  10. 2021: Safari shipped blob.stream(), crashes with a NULL pointer exception
  11. 2021: Appending an element to the shadow DOM in many cases hard crashes the browser process
  12. 2021: LocalStorage is broken when a page is open in more than one tab
  13. 2021: IndexedDB APIs hangs indefinitely on initial page load
  14. 2021: Fetch request streaming is implemented just enough to pass feature detection, but it doesn't actually work
  15. 2021: IndexedDB API information leaks
  16. 2023: Notifications API: support for the badge, icon, image and tag options
  17. 2024: On-screen keyboard does not show up for installed web apps (PWAs) when focusing a text input of any kind
  18. 2008: Focus events for non-input elements behave differently in Safari to every other browser
  19. 2012: Using border-image with border-style: none is rendered completely wrong
  20. 2014: WebKit doesn't calculate padding-top/-bottom: n% correctly
  21. 2014: Pointer events should allow for device-pixel accuracy
  22. 2017: Support for 120Hz requestAnimationFrame
  23. 2018: Some Fetch requests incorrectly completely skip the service worker
  24. 2020: Safari 14 shipped a broken replaceChildren() method, which caused glitches in Construct.
  25. 2020: When leaving current scope of PWA, back button incorrectly reads "Untitled"
  26. 2020: Safe-area-inset-bottom still set when keyboard appears
  27. 2020: Support for background-attachment: local has suddenly completely disappeared
  28. 2021: IntersectionObserver and ResizeObserver fire in incorrect order
  29. 2021: Mousemove events fire when modifier keys are pressed, even if the mouse isn't moved
  30. 2021: Scrolling in home screen apps incorrectly latches to document
  31. 2022: WebM Opus support is inconsistent in Safari
  32. 2022: Installed web app with viewport-fit cover causes overscroll issues, breaks position fixed and -webkit-fill-available
  33. 2023: iPadOS: Viewport doesn't correctly restore after dismissing software keyboard for installed web apps
  34. 2023: iPadOS: window loses focus when dismissing the keyboard, breaks Page Lifecycle API
  35. 2024: Svh and lvh are incorrect on iOS in third party browsers

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