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Safari is the new IE
People who spout this nonsense don't recall how bad IE was. Comparing the current state of any browser to IE (6-7-8) is utter nonsense. There is a really good center of the road set of web browser features which all modern browsers support. This was not the case when IE was big, in order to make nice, functional web pages you needed to either give up supporting one platform or the other or you needed to spend tons of…
On the project I currently work on the codebase is _littered_ with workarounds and hacks to get stuff to work on Safari.