Safari，浏览器时代的下一个IE？

曾经有个段子说：“连IE都敢问你要不要把它设为默认浏览器，你还有什么理由不自信？”但如今，这个段子的主角或许会易主了——Safari的“堕落”引发业界担忧。

There was a paragraph that said, "Even IE dared to ask you if you wanted to set it up as a default browser, why can't you be confident?" But today, the main actor of this paragraph might be easy to control — and Safari's “depravity” raised concerns in the industry.

雷锋网7月6日消息，Web开发者诺兰·劳森（Nolan Lawson）近日撰文指出，苹果在实施Web标准上的表现明显落后于其它主流浏览器开发商。鉴于不少新兴的API技术在Safari上都不见踪影，恐怕Safari俨然成了新时代的IE。

On July 6th, Web developer Nolan & nbsp; Lawson wrote recently that apples are clearly lagging behind other mainstream browser developers in implementing the Web standards. Given that many of the new API technologies are missing on Safari, I am afraid that Safari will become the IE of the new era.

据报道，上周Web行业领袖发起的大会EdgeConf上所提到的API，目前的Safari均无一实施。此前凭借JSCore和全新的WKWebView，Safari性能上有了巨大的提升，但各种新生的Web平台特性——线下存储、推送通知和“可安装的”网页应用，Safari却一个都没有。重要的是，苹果看起来对此也没什么兴趣。

According to reports, none of the APIs mentioned in EdgeConf, last week’s Congress, launched by the leaders of the Web industry, is currently being implemented in Safari. Previously, with JSCorre and the brand-new WKWebView, Safari’s performance had improved dramatically, but none of the new Web platform features – underline storage, push notices, and “enable” web applications.

就以IndexedDB为例，IndexedDB在5年多以前便被提出，2012年开始出现在IE、Firefox和Chrome上。而苹果直到2014年年中才推出IndexedDB，然而其用户体验之差简直让人大跌眼镜。雷锋网获悉，一年后，苹果修复了IndexedDB数个大漏洞中的两个。据苹果公司称，IndexedDB不值得花功夫去做，因为它“派不上大用场”。劳森在文中说道：

As in the case of the IndexedDB, the IndexedDB was proposed more than five years ago, starting in 2012 on IE, Firefox, and Chrome. Apple did not launch the IndexedDB until mid-2014, but the difference in its user experience was a big one. One year later, Razornet learned, Apple repaired two of the big gaps in the IndexedDB. According to Apple, the IndexedDB was not worth the effort because it was "unable."

“即便苹果真的采用新出的API，他们也往往只是随便糊弄而已”

"Even if apples actually use new APIs, they're often just fooling around."

苹果的行为一直不被业内人士理解：他们从不派人去参加Web相关的大会，他们的Safari博客也鲜有更新，因而在一年一度的WWDC（全球开发者大会）开幕之前，没有人知道下一代的Safari会长什么样子。

Apple's behavior has never been understood by practitioners: they never send people to the web-related conferences, and their Safari blog is rarely updated, so no one knows what the next generation of Safari will look like before the opening of the annual WWDC.

据雷锋网所知，其实还在2010的时候，苹果也称得上是Web的虔诚信徒。很多帮助网页应用追赶上本地应用的早期特性，如ApplicationCache、WebSQL、触控事件和触控图标等在业界都深受欢迎——当中有很多实则都源自苹果。

As Thunderbolt knows, in 2010, Apple was also known as Web’s devout believer. Many of the applications to help keep up with the early features of local applications, such as ApplicationCache, WebSQL, contact events and contact icons, were popular in industry – many of them originated from apples.

劳森表示，现阶段，Web社区需要接受这样一个事实：Safari成为了新时代的IE。微软最近决心转型，谷歌在Web领域独领风骚，Mozilla亦推出许多新特性来追赶时代潮流。而苹果则显得有些离群索居。“我们是时候公开探讨这个问题了，而不是避而不谈——苹果作为世界上最具价值的公司，还是承受得起一些打击的。”

Lawson said that, at this stage, the Web community needed to accept the fact that Safari had become the IE of the new era. Microsoft had recently decided to transform, Google had a monopoly on Web, and Mozilla had introduced many new features to keep up with the times. Apples seemed a little out of place. “It's time for us to talk openly about this issue, not shy away from saying that apples, as the world's most valuable company, can still bear some blow.”

面对苹果这样一家完全控制iOS平台的主流浏览器的提供商，但其仍然坚守2010年的模式而不知所谓，Web社区能够做些什么？

What can the Web community do in the face of an apple that controls the mainstream browser that controls the iOS platform completely, but still adheres to the 2010 model without knowing what the Web community can do?

劳森在文中提出了多种机制，然而在他总结之下，面对苹果，目前最好的策略或许是来硬的，而非来软的。因此，他指出对苹果最后的解决办法或许是，使用Service Worker等在Safari上不好使的技术，将其视作推动行业进步。

Lawson proposed a variety of mechanisms, but in his summary, the best strategy in the face of apples might be hard, not soft. So, he pointed out that the final solution for apples might be to use the technology that was not easy for Safari, and Worker and so on, as a catalyst for industrial progress.

阿莱克斯·拉塞尔（Alex Russell）在“可安装的网页应用”研讨会上发表了一个很好的观点：如果我们开发出了大量使用Service Worker的免费网页应用，而且这些应用在Android上运行得非常好，而在iOS上只能凑合着用，那苹果就会有兴趣采用Service Worker，支持该API。

Alex   Russell made a good point at the “Applications for Installable Webs” seminar: if we had developed a large number of applications using Service & nbsp; free web applications in Walker, and those applications worked very well on Android, but only on iOS, the apple would be interested in using Service & nbsp; Walker, supporting API.

在这个问题上，劳森真是操碎了心，“如果Web社区能够开始构建出一个生机勃勃的网页应用生态系统，将苹果排挤在外，那苹果可能就会不得不像微软那样转而作出改变。不然的话，Safari或会成为又一个可怕的IE。”

Lawson's really upset about this, "If the Web community can begin to build a vibrant web application ecosystem, crowding apples out, the apples may have to change like Microsoft. Otherwise, Safari might become another terrible IE."

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