Grrr…
Chrome, Edge and Firefox updates usually reach 95% of users within three months. But Safari updates are tied to a new release of the underlying operating system, so they take around 19 months to reach the same usage, and some updates may even need a new device.
This is so shameful. And glad as I am to see new features landing in Safari, as long as they hobble updates like this it’s all just pissing in the wind.
Nice to see Clearleft’s browser support policy get a shoutout from Rachel during her Google IO talk.
It’s very exciting to see the support for popovers—I’ve got a use-case I’m looking forward to playing around with.
Although there’s currently a bug in Safari on iOS (which means there’s a bug in every browser on iOS because …well, you know).
These updated definitions makes sense to me:
- Newly available. The feature is marked as interoperable from the day the last core browser implements it. It marks the moment when developers can start getting excited and learning about a feature.
- Widely available. The feature is marked as having wider support thirty months or 2.5 years later. It marks the moment when it’s safe to start using a feature without explicit cross-browser compatibility knowledge.
A thoroughly researched look at what our baseline criteria should be for making websites today:
The baseline for web development in 2022 is:
- low-spec Android devices in terms of performance,
- Safari from two years before in terms of Web Standards,
- and 4G in terms of networks.
The web in general is not answering those needs properly, especially in terms of performance where factors such as an over-dependence on JavaScript are hindering our sites’ performance.
It’s somewhat damning to Safari to see it as a baseline browser, but with Internet Explorer out of the picture, something has to be the lowest common denominator. In this case, Safari is quite literally the new IE.
A set of default styles to get started on a mobile-first responsive design.
Here's a handy little bookmarklet that overlays a grid on a web page—very handy for tweaking vertical rhythm and aligning to a baseline.