[curtis3389]

Mobile Safari is the new IE. Random idiosyncrasies that are poorly documented dictated by the whims of a single corporation. Apple has broken stuff multiple times in the past few years.

[fooker]

Apple doesn't have an incentive to make mobile web better.

If they do, many apps would just be websites outside their walled garden.

[wannacboatmovie]

Then it would be quite different from IE. Microsoft was so averse to breaking backwards compatibility, that IE stopped innovating and stagnated.

[curtis3389]

I was thinking more of every web app needing one or more "if isIE() {} else {}" blocks somewhere in its codebase. Now we have the wondrous pleasure of doing the same for Apple.

[bawolff]

I don't think that is true. They stopped developing it full stop. Keeping back compat was not the issue.