Comment by nottorp
Ok, the complaints about Apple being behind the Google "standard" are probably legitimate, as long as we keep in mind Chrome isn't a standard.
But the part about a virtual mouse cursor so you have hover... no. No no and no. No on Apple, no on Android, no on any touch only device.
The iPhone took the world by storm because they designed their UI for fat finger touch only. Back then, Google speed redesigned their unreleased Android along the same paradigms when they saw how easy the Apple solution was to use.
If you have a mouse heavy game, no matter if you do it in native code or html, you have to have different interfaces for touch and mouse/kb if you want it to be playable.
I had the same thought about the idea that Safari is “behind”. My hypothesis is that features only “exist” to people if they are implemented in Chrome. If a feature exists in WebKit but not in Chrome, nobody talks about it.