rgadellaa’s avatarrgadellaa’s Twitter Archive—№ 10,750

            1. 🪲 An Abridged History of Safari Showstoppers 10 yrs of Safari showstopper bugs. webventures.rejh.nl/blog/2024/history-of-safari-show-stoppers/ 1/n
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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 mobile ecosystems; ... 2/n
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          ... frequent showstopping bugs, a large patch gap, and lack of competing engines ensures the web is not a credible competitor to native. Here are the receipts to prove it. 3/n
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        🙏 @slightlylate for help in drafting & edits
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      Updated with two new bugs: • 2020: Add Fullscreen API to iOS (& display fullscreen) • 2021: Safari shipped blob-dot-stream(), crashes with a NULL pointer exception
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    Today's updates: • The 'Before we get started...' chapter has been edited to better explain the context of this post. • The 'Did we miss anything' chapter is now at the bottom and accessible via the TOC (on desktop). 1/n
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      Today's updates: • 2019: IndexedDB • 2019: IndexedDB again • 2024: IndexedDB again, again webventures.rejh.nl/blog/2024/history-of-safari-show-stoppers/#anchor--updates
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        Wakey-wakey, today we've got: • 2023: New Wake Lock API does not work in Home Screen Web Apps Reported: 2023 (Mar) Fixed: 2023 (Apr) Released: Nope, nope, nope. webventures.rejh.nl/blog/2024/history-of-safari-show-stoppers/#anchor--updates
        oh my god twitter doesn’t include alt text from images in their API
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          More bugs! 😭 • 2020: IndexedDB Index Corruption after upgrade from iOS 13 to iOS 14 • 2024: No close of popover with click/touch on backdrop in Safari iOS and iPadOS • 2024: Svh and lvh are incorrect on iOS in third party browsers (updated) webventures.rejh.nl/blog/2024/history-of-safari-show-stoppers/#anchor--updates
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            Just one update today, no new bugs (thank god) • 2023: Notifications API: support for the badge, icon, image and tag options webventures.rejh.nl/blog/2024/history-of-safari-show-stoppers/#anchor--updates
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        Sneak peek for tomorrow: Safari 16.4 introduced the Wake Lock API! ...except when your users manage to install the web app. 🫠 But Apple say they're on it, it's just taking 18 months (and counting). bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=254545