One of the members of Apple's Safari team wants to know how to make Apple’s browser better - but seriously, come with problems, not just gripes. MacRumors writes up a couple of Twitter comments from Jen Simmons, “an Apple Evangelist and developer advocate on the Web Developer Experience team for Safari and WebKit…”
Simmons took to Twitter Tuesday, saying:
Everyone in my mentions saying Safari is the worst, it’s the new IE… Can you point to specific bugs & missing support that frustrate you, inhibit you making websites/apps. Bonus points for links to tickets.
Specifics we can fix. Vague hate is honestly super counterproductive.
That reminds me so much of the hate iTunes used to get before they split out movies and podcasts into their own apps. People would say they hated it. I’d ask how they’d change it, and they’d say, “I don’t know, but I hate it.”
Personally, I still miss it, but whatever.
“Also counterproductive,” Simmons continued in a follow on Tweet:
…pointing to bugs from several years ago, complaining about them over & over & over.
Let’s talk about current bugs. Currently missing or partial support for new features. Let us know what’s most important to you. What do you want us to tackle first?
Though, in yet another clarifying Tweet she said:
By “pointing to bugs from several years ago” I definitely meant bugs that have already been fixed. Sorry.
If it’s several years old and not fixed, do ping with a http://bugs.webkit.org link or Feedback number (if you filed at http://feedbackassistant.Apple.com). I’d like to look into it.
I do not know Jen Simmons, but for that Twitter thread alone, I really like her.
