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Webventures
Personal blog · webventures.rejh.nl/blogwebprogramming
Webventures is a personal blog at webventures.rejh.nl about web and programming. Since 2024, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 10 times, most often “An Abridged History of Safari Showstoppers”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2025-03-30, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (9) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN commenters link this blog for posts on Safari bugs and being crippled, iOS web push notifications, and whether apps should have been websites. The links are cited as evidence, with no direct judgement of the writing.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 9 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
To boldly go where countless others have gone before.
Most-linked posts?
- An Abridged History of Safari Showstoppers4 people · 5 mentions · first linked 2024-09-24
What Hacker News says?
Apple doesn't invest sufficient resources in Safari even with Google's competition and support[1]. [1]: https://webventures.rejh.nl/blog/2024/history-of-safari-show...
Comment linking /blog/2024/history-of-safari-show-stoppers/
on “All four major web browsers are about to lose 80% of their funding”Submitted An Abridged History of Safari Showstoppers as a story · 23 points
HN discussion> The only reason why Safari is "shit" is because web developers are too lazy to develop for the web and instead develop for Chrome. Safari is only available on Apple devices, Chrome is available everywhere. Let's not pretend that laziness is the only reason why Chrome has the largest marketshare. > The point of the web is that it's an open standard. Expecting everyone to use the bleeding edge version of the most ag…
Comment linking /blog/2024/history-of-safari-show-stoppers/
on “Japan: Apple Must Lift Browser Engine Ban by December”Yeah so native apps have some unique abilities to track you that websites do not. On top of that, platforms like Reddit and Facebook tend to prefer native apps because it's easier to keep you within the app. Even if you click a link to an external website, for example, Facebook will open that link in an in-app browser (unless you find the opt-out). A few years ago, a researcher found out that these apps often inject…
Comment linking /blog/2022/in-app-browsers-are-tracking-you/
on “App Should Have Been a Website (and Probably Your Game Too)”100% agree. Except it would be nice to have a notification, reminding you that the meter is running. And on iOS, you need to install a web app before it can send notifications, defeating the point of not having to install anything. https://webventures.rejh.nl/blog/2023/ios-web-push-requires-...
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on “App Should Have Been a Website (and Probably Your Game Too)”I have many MANY grievances with Safari: 1. Mandating all browsers on iOS/iPadOS to be powered by Safari (excluding in the EU). This doesn't sound bad, but wait until #3 below... 2. Safari's many bugs. Too many bugs. Oh so many bugs. Damn that's a lot of bugs. - See: https://webventures.rejh.nl/blog/2024/history-of-safari-show... - Also see the State of CSS developer survey where Safari makes up such a large portion…
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on “Tim Cook to become Apple Executive Chairman”And alas web push notifications on iOS remain very critically buggered beyond measure. https://webventures.rejh.nl/blog/2024/web-push-ios-one-year/ I get that not everyone would accept a web-app replacement, but it sure would be nice if iOS wasn't actively obstructing the possibility of some folks using a web-app messaging service.
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on “Modern messaging: Running your own XMPP server”There's supposed to be an open standard for Web Push notifications. ICEBlock would need to build out more tools for themselves, but the same user flow they have now should work with a PWA, using these open universal standards. Alas, Apple's Web Push implementation has massive problems with it and there's no sign it'll improve. https://webventures.rejh.nl/blog/2024/web-push-ios-one-year/ Once again Apple mysteriously…
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on “Apple's Unlawful Evil”It is bizarre that you're "pinning" this on the Chromium engineers - who are essentially the only ones moving the web forward. The safari feet dragging/obstruction goes far beyond PWAs. The chart on this page is one of many examples showing how consistently far behind Safari is - they've been enormously behind chrome and firefox in coverage of tests for 7+ years. https://wpt.fyi/ . And here's an extremely comprehens…
Comment linking /blog/2024/history-of-safari-show-stoppers/
on “Temporal: The 9-Year Journey to Fix Time in JavaScript”I compiled a "short" list of why amd how Safari is crippled. Not entirely on topic for the post, but seems appropriate as a reply on this particular comment ;) https://webventures.rejh.nl/blog/2024/history-of-safari-show...
Comment linking /blog/2024/history-of-safari-show-stoppers
on “Apple's intentional crippling of Mobile Safari continues”
