Is Safari the new IE8? https://github.com/terser/terser/issues/117 … JS bug from 2018, still open: https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=189914 …
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Replying to @slightlylate @ElliottZ
At the same time, it's the last, best hope to prevent exactly the same thing happening to Chrome.
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You missed the lesson. Apple is doing is *exactly what caused IE to became a liability*. Good investment '06-'08 (maybe '09?). Boat-anchor thereafter + anticompetitive behaviour from OS. IE's issue wasn't that it sucked, it's that MSFT disbanded/underfunded team post '01
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Replying to @slightlylate @ElliottZ
They're just in a different place on the timeline, Alex.
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It's worse than that. They closed the competitive spigot 10 years back to little remark and there's no DOJ on the case this time. Nobody can crack this open because Apple owns the affections of the wealthy.
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Last time 'round, MSFT had an open-enough OS for competition to eventually cleanse. This time?https://twitter.com/slightlylate/status/1191026394421026816?s=20 …
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