John Voorhees, writing for MacStories, about the transformative power of iPadOS’s version of Safari on the device’s utility:
With the release of iPadOS 13, Safari took a big step forward as a ‘desktop-class’ browser with a wide variety of enhancements that collectively eliminate a long list of complaints leveled against the app in the past. Safari’s ability to dynamically adjust the viewport to fit the iPad’s screen, enhanced support for pointer events, hardware-accelerated scrolling of frames and other regions of a webpage, along with other under-the-hood changes add up to a genuinely new browsing experience that has made work in sophisticated web apps like Mailchimp a viable option for the first time.
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Web apps are a substantial part of most people’s workflows these days… I wouldn’t be surprised if a lot of MacStories readers gave up on using certain web apps in Safari on an iPad long ago and haven’t gone back. If that sounds like you, I encourage you to give Safari another shot.
Like Voorhees, I too prefer an app over a website when available–and not just on iPad. I spent much of today scheduling in OmniOutliner instead of Sheets, and I use applications like MailMate and OmniFocus instead of Gmail webmail and tasks. Google’s G Suite apps are an example, however, of how the applications are poorly implemented compared to the browser. But iPadOS’s version of Safari elevated the iPad from occasional sidekick to my main computer with one update.