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Safari? #31

Closed sted closed 5 years ago

plibither8 commented 5 years ago

Hi!

I won't be supporting Safari extension development. As mention in one of the Hacker News comments:

Safari has traditionally used a different extension API, which coupled with this smaller adoption has hindered the progress of extensions in the platform. A recent change to an app extension model has hurt the ecosystem even more, as it killed a significant portion of the already few extensions that used to exist.

and

Safari uses its own Safari Extensions JS, so while it may be possible to share some resources (e.g. images, HTML content), the js work needs to be undertaken as a separate development project, unless you use/build a polyfill.

Cheers!

nesl247 commented 3 years ago

Is there any plan to reconsider now that Safari supports the Web Extensions API?

plibither8 commented 3 years ago

Hey! I wasn't aware about this development. But unfortunately I don't have an Apple device to develop for Safari. If you can take this up I'll happily assign and review it :)