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Re: Safari 10.1

#91

"When the pointer is locked, users will see a banner explaining that the mouse cursor is hidden, and that they can get out of pointer lock by pressing the Escape key." I beg your pardon — which key?

Funny. But there is still an escape key and it's not altogether impossible to use

Re: Safari 10.1

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Safari was never the new IE. Microsoft took 5 years to go from IE6 to IE7, and 7 was really bad. IE completely stagnated, while being the default browser on a billion PC's. Then they were very slow to adopt HTML 5 features. Developers were supporting IE6 over 10 years after it was released. I doubt if many people are supporting 5 year old versions of Safari, let alone 10 year old versions.

> Microsoft took 5 years to go from IE6 to IE7, as 7 was really bad. IE completely stagnated, while being the default browser on a billion PC's. I feel like many people have forgotten how bad this really was, or simply weren't developing back then ...

Everything looks slightly less bad in hindsight

Re: Safari 10.1

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Safari is a great browser for MacOS, what it lacks right now, is not more features, is opening the extension system. Let's face it, it is ridiculous to have to pay 100$ a year to be able to improve Apple's product in exchange for nothing. Making plugins for a browser doesn't have in any way the same opportunities to make money from it as making apps for iOS or for MacOS. Still Apple, in all their usual stubbornness r…

I don't know whether it's ridiculous or not, but it's definitely a culture clash. Safari had a hard time attracting ports of other browsers' extensions even when you could distribute them for free and they were fully HTML-based. (Probably because there was no Windows version.) Now, not only do you have to pay, the old extension system has been deprecated in favor of a new system where you have to bundle your extensio…

If Safari starts supporting WebExtensions we're halfway there, but I don't see them switching from their current model anytime soon — sadly for its users.

Re: Safari 10.1

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Biggest deal here (for me) is the HTML 5 download attribute. Without that you cannot name or provide an extension for files that are triggered for download.

Surprised and shocked that this is not already included in Safari. I use the download attribute on some CDN and it would not download with it (tried everything). So today I learned it would not work on actual Safari :(

Re: Safari 10.1

#95

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Like that super readable Chrome tab bar when you have lots of tabs open? http://imgur.com/a/MZ2dI

There is no solution to that many tabs. Not getting it right with 5-6 open seems hard even if you try.

The app should force spawning a new window when there are too many tabs to reliably display titles. This wouldn't be that tricky - screen width / min-legible tab size = threshold number of tabs for new window spawn.

Then it would be totally down to personal preference: when I reach maximal tabs, do I want to keep going into the nightmare pit of tabageddon or am I happy with a new clean window?

Re: Safari 10.1

#96

"When the pointer is locked, users will see a banner explaining that the mouse cursor is hidden, and that they can get out of pointer lock by pressing the Escape key." I beg your pardon — which key?

Funny. But there is still an escape key and it's not altogether impossible to use

Unless of course you touch type in which case you end up looking at the keyboard now....

Re: Safari 10.1

#98
“Reduced Motion Media Query” The extents to which Apple goes for people with disabilities is as baffling as it is commendable. I can’t think of another company in any industry that does so much.

Re: Safari 10.1

#99

Whew. Custom Elements, Fetch, and async/await all at once? Christmas came real early in 2017...

Too bad we still have to use shims until iOS Safari catches up (hopefully this year).

Safari 10.1 is still in beta but it's coming to both macOS and iOS.

Re: Safari 10.1

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Funny. But there is still an escape key and it's not altogether impossible to use

Unless of course you touch type in which case you end up looking at the keyboard now....

Except not really, because the hitbox for esc is the entire top left of the bar, as long as you touch the corner, you esc.
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