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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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[โ€“] 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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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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