Why is it even compatible with Safari? What owner of an Apple product would use the web version of FaceTime when they already have it on their devices

FaceTime: Not supported on Firefox : firefox

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2021-06-08 03:30:02

Why is it even compatible with Safari? What owner of an Apple product would use the web version of FaceTime when they already have it on their devices? I wouldn't even try to test it on Safari and concentrate on Chrome (and Edge I guess) if they are looking for those Android and Windows users.

Actually, believe it or not being compatible with Safari is a really good litmus test for well written modern code. Safari is a really barebones, if slightly modified variant of webkit, that both Firefox and Chrome derive from. The general dev complaint about Safari isn't that it's deviant, like IE11, but that it's just slow to pick up features, and user unfriendly with regards to extensions. That means that if your website runs well in Safari it should run well in Firefox, and the only reasons why it wouldn't are semantics. Vice versa is not true. You could absolutely target Chrome API's and toss other browsers to the side.

It makes sense for Apple to prioritize Safari and Chrome. Eventually, it'll work just like the web version of Apple Music.