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Which is true, but they're much less prominent overall. Mobile Safari is quirky to say the least and is truly the IE of the present day.


Are they really? Safari is currently leading Interop 2022 https://wpt.fyi/interop-2022


Given how vast the modern web specifications are, you could really be 99% compliant but provide a pretty mediocre experience to your users, or vice versa.

For example, I use Firefox as my main browser, and the lack of e.g. proper WebAuthN support on macOS has a much, much higher impact to me (and is making me consider switching), whereas I couldn't care less about e.g. WebUSB (which I do occasionally use, but I'm fine switching to Chrome for that use case).

To get an accurate picture, you'd have to somehow weigh all of these various standards and features in a way that not only accurately presents actual users, but also their relative importance (i.e. do websites trying to use something fail gracefully, or do I effectively have to use another browser to get achieve what I'm there for).




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