WebKit

Raised as a usability problem by 19 people on Hacker News over 17 years (2008–2024), in 17 threads.

People raised many different problems with WebKit, but no single problem has yet been raised by 3 people in 3 different months and threads.

Unreviewed issues were grouped by machine: Claude Haiku labelled each comment as a usability complaint, named what it's about and summed up the problem in a line, and a small model grouped similar problems. Nobody has checked them by hand. Expect mistakes.

The newest 19 complaints

Building it takes a week because dependencies are undocumented or poorly documented2024-02-20
Nested & selector behaves differently than documented, making it unintuitive to use2023-02-16
Header overview is an image with uninformative alt text, so screen reader users miss it2022-09-12
Text cursor and selection highlight stay visible outside scroll area over toolbar2022-01-09
Random large gaps appear mid-paragraph until the text is selected2020-05-10
Developers must add heavy JavaScript just to get a date picker2019-04-06
Taps delayed by 300ms and standalone web apps reload URLs unexpectedly, hurting interaction2017-12-21
Tapping during a scroll animation registers at the wrong position on the page2016-10-06
Autocomplete only accepts Tab, not Return; metrics take too many clicks2013-06-26
Cmd-L does something else inside the developer tools, forcing mouse use2013-04-11
Can't set breakpoints in inline page scripts; line numbers don't respond to clicks2012-08-16
Drag and drop gets confused about element positions after heavy use, forcing a refresh2012-08-10
Many features are missing and the interface is hard to navigate2012-08-10
Hard to find and diagnose WebKit performance bugs with little tooling help2012-04-17
Scrolling with arrow keys or page-down clicks looks jerky, while dragging the scroll bar is smooth2012-01-17
Developers cannot manually show or hide the on-screen keyboard, constraining UI flow2011-05-12
Can't find the on-screen rulers that Firebug shows when hovering layout measurements2010-12-14
Tracing a CSS calculation in the inspector is a nightmare2010-04-09
Shows CSS colors as RGB values instead of hex, which is annoying2008-10-01