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I remember when everyone was complaining about how terrible Safari is. The lead developer started having a go and ranting on Twitter, saying that raising bug reports is not constructive feedback.
That was a mess.
Do you have any links? Not that I don't believe you, I just can't find anything on it and it seems very entertaining
This feels like the kind of thing I would watch a 2 hour long youtube deep dive video on, haha
Where is hbomberguy when the world needs him
Commiting war crimes against the letter h
I do have a Twitter account but for the life of me I can't remember what the password is so I can't actually see the responses, since apparently you need to sign in to see responses now, but if you do have Twitter you can see the responses here's the link. https://x.com/jensimmons/status/1491064075987873792
Some nitter instances might work. This one did. Not a shitshow at all, especially as she didn't say that "bug reports aren't constructive feedback"
There's plenty of bug reports in there and she's behaving how I'd expect a developer to: by asking further questions and version use for stuff that should be fixed. Didn't see any point where she lost her temper in any way
https://xcancel.com/jensimmons/status/1491064075987873792
She refused to acknowledge the existence of issues and point-blank refused to fix existing bugs.
Claiming apple is the new internet explorer is only untrue in the sense that it understates the nature of the issue.
Safari is still a pain for frontend developers to deal with. At least IE6 was a static target and we were well aware of all the bugs. Some of the bugs and workarounds even had names, like the "peekaboo bug" and the Holly Hack".
Safari is a moving target that has so many bugs and issues that none of the other major browsers have.
I caught the tail end of IE6 webdev, but the idea was basically "let jquery figure it out". Not too painful tbh.