Earlier this week – January 11, 2016 – Apple announced the release of Safari 9.1 which will be available soon is available now. It ships with exciting features – picture element, fast-tap, CSS variables – to name a few. I was as surprised, as other web developers to see this happen and it makes me happy.
Safari is the new IE #
Many web developers have the feeling that Safari is lagging behind other browsers nowadays. On of the reasons is the release cycle of Safari. Until now, a new version of Safari was released only once a year. While other browser vendors release a new version every other month, we – as web developers – had to wait for a long time until features and fixes would land in Safari. I am pleased to see a change happening here and I am looking forward to see more frequent releases in the future.
I am even optimistic now to see Service Worker coming to Safari this year which I wouldn’t have thought it would ever happen a month ago.
And don’t worry, I am sure the internet crowd will soon find another thing which is the new IE.