- if you really care, you can use .png or .jpg fallbacks using the PICTURE tag. Whilst having two images doing the job of one can kind-of suck, it’s not like saving twice or using online optimizers isn’t already part of the process. Or at least should be. That one shitty browser made by the sleaziest jizz-bucket anti-consumer f***wads has problems with it? Well…
- Screw those people. As an accessibility advocate I shouldn’t say that, but I am huffing DONE bending over backwards for crApple’s web-rot, the pretentiousness and entitlement of the dipshits lighting money on fire with the rinky overpriced poorly engineered garbage, the predatory anti-consumer practices, and the simple fact that ever since Google absconded with all the talent after forking off “blink”, Safari as aged like milk. There’s a reason more and more developers are calling it “The new IE”
To be frank, we need to start treating Safari the way we did IE8/earlier ten years ago. We “support” it in that you can get to the actual content, but if they don’t get all the bells and whistles? OH FREAKING WELL!
We need to stop propping up and supporting one of the most disreputable, sleazy, dishonest companies, and the morons dumb enough to buy their garbage.
But let me tell you what I really think about Apple and their userbase.
Now, setting aside my 44+ year rabid distaste for Apple and every single scumbucket bit of bullshit they’ve done in that time, irregardless of what browser maker it is, if ONE browser maker is lagging behind on support for anything, we should go ahead and use it to force them to get off their arse and fix it. When pages stop working right in one browser, it drives people to the browsers where it does work. Just look at IE5 & 6 vs. Nyetscape 4.x.
Interdebt Exploder didn’t just win because it came free with the OS, it drive innovation and change in a way Nutscrape never did. Many of the things we expect and accept today were implemented first in IE, and that’s much more of how they got the 95% market share than the fact it came with windows. Or how 5.x was the only browser on Apple that came close to fully supporting HTML 4 and CSS in a usable fashion.
When a browser maker decides their browser is no longer worth updating for their userbase, we need to say that browser is no longer worth supporting. Full stop, do not pass go, do not collect $500.