Safari Technology Preview supports 100% of the ES2015/16/17 features

Post by wlesieutre » Fri, Dec 09, 2016, 12:26 AM UTC

fredsir wrote: post #28

ggregoire wrote: post #5

Honnest question for Safari users: why Safari? I don't really know Safari. I used Chrome on Windows and iOS, and when I moved to OSX I naturally continued with Chrome. And the dev tools are really great.

More power efficient which is key because I use a laptop all the time, and often on battery power. It fits better with macOS conventions compared to Chrome and Firefox. It's faster. Safari content blockers (I use 1Blocker) seems to not slow down page loading at all compared to conventional ad-blockers on both Safari and Chrome, which does. I used Chrome on Mac for years. Then Safari became better, and then it kept ge…

Post by ukblewis » Fri, Dec 09, 2016, 12:30 AM UTC

wlesieutre wrote: post #81

fredsir wrote: post #28

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More power efficient which is key because I use a laptop all the time, and often on battery power. It fits better with macOS conventions compared to Chrome and Firefox. It's faster. Safari content blockers (I use 1Blocker) seems to not slow down page loading at all compared to conventional ad-blockers on both Safari and Chrome, which does. I used Chrome on Mac for years. Then Safari became better, and then it kept ge…

Is there any way to hook up bookmark syncing cross browser? Better battery life would be nice, but I like having Chrome's sync between Mac, Windows, Linux, and iOS.

Post by Aldo_MX » Fri, Dec 09, 2016, 12:35 AM UTC

johnhenry wrote: post #67

cooper12 wrote: post #50

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I mean the title is the whole context. If you're worried about the table not being static, one can ideally refer to an archive [0] (just saved it) or since this is an open source project that is version controlled, the specific revision [1] displayed. [0]: https://web.archive.org/web/20161208203812/http://kangax.git... [1]: https://github.com/kangax/compat-table/blob/559825d41e7b8773...

I wouldn't say that I'm "worried", but the title states a fact that will likely, at some point, not be supported by the given link.

Post by jayflux » Fri, Dec 09, 2016, 1:14 AM UTC

JasonSage wrote: post #21

eridius wrote: post #16

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Many reasons. Among those I care about: * It's a lot more power-efficient than any other browser. * In my experience, it's often faster than Chrome. * It follows platform conventions. I still get weirded out by Chrome cramming everything into that ⋮ button. * It syncs history, favorites, and open tabs over iCloud to Safari on my phone. It also supports Handoff. * It's not made by Google, a company that I prefer to gi…

An FYI regarding "In my experience, it's often faster than Chrome"... I found during development that Safari will start retrieving suggested URLs even before you finish typing them, so if I'm going to 'news.ycombinator.com', it makes the request when I hit 'n', and by the time I hit a few more characters and enter a few hundred milliseconds later, the request is already complete.

Post by ino » Fri, Dec 09, 2016, 1:32 AM UTC

eridius wrote: post #16

ggregoire wrote: post #5

Honnest question for Safari users: why Safari? I don't really know Safari. I used Chrome on Windows and iOS, and when I moved to OSX I naturally continued with Chrome. And the dev tools are really great.

Many reasons. Among those I care about: * It's a lot more power-efficient than any other browser. * In my experience, it's often faster than Chrome. * It follows platform conventions. I still get weirded out by Chrome cramming everything into that ⋮ button. * It syncs history, favorites, and open tabs over iCloud to Safari on my phone. It also supports Handoff. * It's not made by Google, a company that I prefer to gi…