Safari isn't protecting the web, it's killing it

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  • WHATWG HTML Standard

    HTML Standard

    • I got a little curious on the statuses of these standards and went on a bit of searching.

    > CSS contain (CSS Containment Module Level 2) - First published in 2019, still Editor's Draft[1]. Not supported by Safari/WebKit.

    > CSS offset-path (Motion Path Module Level 1) - First published in 2015, still Editor's Draft[2]. Not supported by Safari/WebKit.

    > CSS overflow-anchor (CSS Scroll Anchoring Module Level 1) - First published in 2020, still Editor's Draft[3]. Not supported by Safari/WebKit.

    > Resolution media queries (dppx) - W3C Recommendation since 2012[4]. Not supported by Safari/WebKit.

    > :focus-visible (Selectors Level 4) - First published in 2011, still Editor's Draft[5]. Not supported by Safari/WebKit.

    - Touch Events - W3C Recommendation since 2013[6]. Supported on iOS 3.2 (2010). I assume the author meant Pointer Events[7] which became W3C recommendation since 2019, and supported on 13.2 (2019).

    > BroadcastChannel - WHATWG Living Standard[8]. Blocked by privacy concern on WebKit side since 2020[9]. Initial support landed in WebKit trunk as of 2021-07.[10]

    > beforeprint/afterprint - WHATWG Living Standard[11]. Supported by Safari/WebKit since 2019 (iOS 13).

    > Regex Lookbehind - ECMAScript 2018[12]. Not supported by Safari/WebKit.

    > scrollIntoView (CSSOM View Module) - First introduced in CSSOM View Module since 2011, still Editor's Draft[13]. Not supported by Safari/WebKit.

    > Screen Orientation API - First committed in wc3/screen-orientation in 2012, still a W3C Working Draft[14]. Not supported by Safari/WebKit.

    > Date and time input types - WHATWG Living Standard[15], partial support by Safari/WebKit since 2012 (iOS 5) but no week/min/max.

    > Service Workers - W3C Candidate Recommendation since 2019[16]. Supported by Safari/WebKit since 2018 (iOS 14.5).

    - AbortSignal - WHATWG Living Standard[17]. Supported by Safari/WebKit since 2018 (iOS 11.3)

    - Intersection Observer - First published in 2017, still W3C Working Draft[18]. Supported by Safari/WebKit since 2019 (iOS 12.2).

    - Client-side form validation - WHATWG Living Standard[19]. Supported by Safari/WebKit since 2017 (iOS 10.3).

    [1]: https://drafts.csswg.org/css-contain/#contain-property

    [2]: https://drafts.fxtf.org/motion/#offset-path-property

    [3]: https://drafts.csswg.org/css-scroll-anchoring/#exclusion-api

    [4]: https://www.w3.org/TR/css3-mediaqueries/#resolution

    [5]: https://drafts.csswg.org/selectors-4/#the-focus-visible-pseu...

    [6]: https://www.w3.org/TR/touch-events/

    [7]: https://www.w3.org/TR/pointerevents/

    [8]: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/web-messaging.html#br...

    [9]: https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/5803

    [10]: https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=227924

    [11]: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/timers-and-user-promp...

    [12]: https://262.ecma-international.org/9.0/

    [13]: https://drafts.csswg.org/cssom-view/#dom-element-scrollintov...

    [14]: https://www.w3.org/TR/screen-orientation/

    [15]: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/input.html#date-state...

    [16]: https://www.w3.org/TR/service-workers/

    [17]: https://dom.spec.whatwg.org/#abortsignal

    [18]: https://www.w3.org/TR/intersection-observer/

    [19]: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/forms.html#client-sid...

  • IntersectionObserver

    Intersection Observer

    • I got a little curious on the statuses of these standards and went on a bit of searching.

    > CSS contain (CSS Containment Module Level 2) - First published in 2019, still Editor's Draft[1]. Not supported by Safari/WebKit.

    > CSS offset-path (Motion Path Module Level 1) - First published in 2015, still Editor's Draft[2]. Not supported by Safari/WebKit.

    > CSS overflow-anchor (CSS Scroll Anchoring Module Level 1) - First published in 2020, still Editor's Draft[3]. Not supported by Safari/WebKit.

    > Resolution media queries (dppx) - W3C Recommendation since 2012[4]. Not supported by Safari/WebKit.

    > :focus-visible (Selectors Level 4) - First published in 2011, still Editor's Draft[5]. Not supported by Safari/WebKit.

    - Touch Events - W3C Recommendation since 2013[6]. Supported on iOS 3.2 (2010). I assume the author meant Pointer Events[7] which became W3C recommendation since 2019, and supported on 13.2 (2019).

    > BroadcastChannel - WHATWG Living Standard[8]. Blocked by privacy concern on WebKit side since 2020[9]. Initial support landed in WebKit trunk as of 2021-07.[10]

    > beforeprint/afterprint - WHATWG Living Standard[11]. Supported by Safari/WebKit since 2019 (iOS 13).

    > Regex Lookbehind - ECMAScript 2018[12]. Not supported by Safari/WebKit.

    > scrollIntoView (CSSOM View Module) - First introduced in CSSOM View Module since 2011, still Editor's Draft[13]. Not supported by Safari/WebKit.

    > Screen Orientation API - First committed in wc3/screen-orientation in 2012, still a W3C Working Draft[14]. Not supported by Safari/WebKit.

    > Date and time input types - WHATWG Living Standard[15], partial support by Safari/WebKit since 2012 (iOS 5) but no week/min/max.

    > Service Workers - W3C Candidate Recommendation since 2019[16]. Supported by Safari/WebKit since 2018 (iOS 14.5).

    - AbortSignal - WHATWG Living Standard[17]. Supported by Safari/WebKit since 2018 (iOS 11.3)

    - Intersection Observer - First published in 2017, still W3C Working Draft[18]. Supported by Safari/WebKit since 2019 (iOS 12.2).

    - Client-side form validation - WHATWG Living Standard[19]. Supported by Safari/WebKit since 2017 (iOS 10.3).

    [1]: https://drafts.csswg.org/css-contain/#contain-property

    [2]: https://drafts.fxtf.org/motion/#offset-path-property

    [3]: https://drafts.csswg.org/css-scroll-anchoring/#exclusion-api

    [4]: https://www.w3.org/TR/css3-mediaqueries/#resolution

    [5]: https://drafts.csswg.org/selectors-4/#the-focus-visible-pseu...

    [6]: https://www.w3.org/TR/touch-events/

    [7]: https://www.w3.org/TR/pointerevents/

    [8]: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/web-messaging.html#br...

    [9]: https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/5803

    [10]: https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=227924

    [11]: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/timers-and-user-promp...

    [12]: https://262.ecma-international.org/9.0/

    [13]: https://drafts.csswg.org/cssom-view/#dom-element-scrollintov...

    [14]: https://www.w3.org/TR/screen-orientation/

    [15]: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/input.html#date-state...

    [16]: https://www.w3.org/TR/service-workers/

    [17]: https://dom.spec.whatwg.org/#abortsignal

    [18]: https://www.w3.org/TR/intersection-observer/

    [19]: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/forms.html#client-sid...

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  • dom

    DOM Standard

    • I got a little curious on the statuses of these standards and went on a bit of searching.

    > CSS contain (CSS Containment Module Level 2) - First published in 2019, still Editor's Draft[1]. Not supported by Safari/WebKit.

    > CSS offset-path (Motion Path Module Level 1) - First published in 2015, still Editor's Draft[2]. Not supported by Safari/WebKit.

    > CSS overflow-anchor (CSS Scroll Anchoring Module Level 1) - First published in 2020, still Editor's Draft[3]. Not supported by Safari/WebKit.

    > Resolution media queries (dppx) - W3C Recommendation since 2012[4]. Not supported by Safari/WebKit.

    > :focus-visible (Selectors Level 4) - First published in 2011, still Editor's Draft[5]. Not supported by Safari/WebKit.

    - Touch Events - W3C Recommendation since 2013[6]. Supported on iOS 3.2 (2010). I assume the author meant Pointer Events[7] which became W3C recommendation since 2019, and supported on 13.2 (2019).

    > BroadcastChannel - WHATWG Living Standard[8]. Blocked by privacy concern on WebKit side since 2020[9]. Initial support landed in WebKit trunk as of 2021-07.[10]

    > beforeprint/afterprint - WHATWG Living Standard[11]. Supported by Safari/WebKit since 2019 (iOS 13).

    > Regex Lookbehind - ECMAScript 2018[12]. Not supported by Safari/WebKit.

    > scrollIntoView (CSSOM View Module) - First introduced in CSSOM View Module since 2011, still Editor's Draft[13]. Not supported by Safari/WebKit.

    > Screen Orientation API - First committed in wc3/screen-orientation in 2012, still a W3C Working Draft[14]. Not supported by Safari/WebKit.

    > Date and time input types - WHATWG Living Standard[15], partial support by Safari/WebKit since 2012 (iOS 5) but no week/min/max.

    > Service Workers - W3C Candidate Recommendation since 2019[16]. Supported by Safari/WebKit since 2018 (iOS 14.5).

    - AbortSignal - WHATWG Living Standard[17]. Supported by Safari/WebKit since 2018 (iOS 11.3)

    - Intersection Observer - First published in 2017, still W3C Working Draft[18]. Supported by Safari/WebKit since 2019 (iOS 12.2).

    - Client-side form validation - WHATWG Living Standard[19]. Supported by Safari/WebKit since 2017 (iOS 10.3).

    [1]: https://drafts.csswg.org/css-contain/#contain-property

    [2]: https://drafts.fxtf.org/motion/#offset-path-property

    [3]: https://drafts.csswg.org/css-scroll-anchoring/#exclusion-api

    [4]: https://www.w3.org/TR/css3-mediaqueries/#resolution

    [5]: https://drafts.csswg.org/selectors-4/#the-focus-visible-pseu...

    [6]: https://www.w3.org/TR/touch-events/

    [7]: https://www.w3.org/TR/pointerevents/

    [8]: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/web-messaging.html#br...

    [9]: https://github.com/whatwg/html/issues/5803

    [10]: https://bugs.webkit.org/show_bug.cgi?id=227924

    [11]: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/timers-and-user-promp...

    [12]: https://262.ecma-international.org/9.0/

    [13]: https://drafts.csswg.org/cssom-view/#dom-element-scrollintov...

    [14]: https://www.w3.org/TR/screen-orientation/

    [15]: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/input.html#date-state...

    [16]: https://www.w3.org/TR/service-workers/

    [17]: https://dom.spec.whatwg.org/#abortsignal

    [18]: https://www.w3.org/TR/intersection-observer/

    [19]: https://html.spec.whatwg.org/multipage/forms.html#client-sid...

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