have been resolved with the grid system that we're using. Occasionally we use a Web API that's a little arcane, like DOM MutationObserver for example, but I think that has such good browser support that it's pretty good. I think Safari is just a wildcard because its development exists sort of outside the rest of the other browsers. So there's so much support behind WebKit, but Safari sort of does their own thing. It's kind of always a guessing game as to what they've implemented and what new standards they've decided... It seems like they're a little more selective about what they implement and don't implement all standards completely. Much like IE used to do.
Think back to Safari issues, more missing or implemented by different/inconsistent?
Like I said it's sort of a guessing game as to what Safari has implemented of a standard. Sometimes they implement things that are not standards and they sort of create a de-facto standard. But I've been doing web development since I was a teenager. In those days things were a lot worse [inaudible] browser support. I feel like this is kind of a golden era for being a web developer just because there's so many standards that have been agreed upon and implemented widely. It's mostly small API details here and there that you have to work around and dig deep to fix.
Participant 3
Browser support
Usually the baseline is IE11. It's still a thing. For the startup I mentioned, the clients are mostly from the banking industry and large corporations. Some strange IT policies where they still rely on IE11 internally. Apart from that, yeah, the typical. I would say it's more about engines than browsers nowadays. It's Gecko and Blink of course, and WebKit. But WebKit is, um, especially... so on mobile we don't test on Android most of the time because we don't have a device lab at hand, so we just hope for the best to be honest. Because I have iOS devices I don't want to buy additional things that are just catching dust all the time, and spend a couple of hundred bucks or maybe ever more just to get a decent range of Android devices.
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