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Safari Team Asks for Feedback Amid Accusations That ‘Safari Is the Worst, It’s the New IE’

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Apple’s Safari and WebKit team has asked for feedback on Twitter amid criticisms of the browser’s bugs and missing support.

Jen Simmons, an Apple Evangelist and developer advocate on the Web Developer Experience team for Safari and WebKit, Tweeted that “Everyone in my mentions [is] saying Safari is the worst, it’s the new IE.” This led her to ask users for feedback, preferably highlighting specific bugs and instances of missing support that inhibits websites and apps.

Also counterproductive, pointing to bugs from several years ago, complaining about them over & over & over.

Let’s talk about current bugs. Currently missing or partial support for new features. Let us know what’s most important to you. What do you want us to tackle first?

— Jen Simmons (@jensimmons) February 8, 2022

Simmons also urged users who notice bugs that are “several years old and not fixed” to contact her with a link from bugs.webkit.org or a Feedback number from Apple’s Feedback Assistant so it can be looked into more closely. The call for feedback has largely been received positively.

Safari has been met with complaints from some users in recent years over the browser’s bugs, user experience, and website compatibility. The problems reached fever pitch last year when Apple unveiled a substantial redesign for Safari at WWDC, which was met with widespread criticism that accused the changes of being “counterintuitive.” After months of tweaking the ambitious redesign in response to feedback, Apple eventually gave up on the changes just before the public release of iOS 15, iPadOS 15, and macOS Monterey, reverting to the previous Safari design by default. Tags: Safari, WebKit
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