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If you write code to make websites (HTML, CSS, JS, Web API, Media) and you get frustrated trying to wrangle your code to work in Safari, which bugs are blocking you? Which existing features would you most like to see improved? If you got a chance to order priorities which effort would you put first?

I’m not sure the App Store helps in this case; if Safari uses features, APIs, etc. in a new version of iOS that don’t exist in older iOS versions, those customers wouldn’t be able to upgrade to the latest Safari anyway…

Then perhaps those features could be gated based on os version/capabilities. To a point of course. This is something that every other browser is already doing.

I understand that Safari has a kind of deep OS integration that the other browsers do not, but its JS and CSS features that I want more frequent updates for. I believe those should be among the most independent parts from the OS.

80-90% of the iOS user base are quick to update, but that's not enough. Asking the rest to update their phone is too big of an ask. Asking them to update their browser however, that doesn't seem unreasonable.