Tons of excitement for Project
and PWAs at BlinkOn 10!
Videos will be online soon; until then, want to quickly highlight this data that @foolip, @miketaylr, and Robert Ma presented: https://docs.google.com/presentation/d/1_On7g2EAUrVumIZr0PC-_iZszKyGT2_u1HbieThXjKA/mobilepresent …
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Their takeaways are stark: - Chromium is ahead; many divergent features are cases of intentional leadership - All browsers are delivering more compatible features every year - ...but the size of the accumulated gap is not the same between engines
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In particular, Firefox/Gecko is maintaining a pretty constant-sized gap. This may change with
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The standout in the data is WebKit. It's behind, and falling further away from the leaders every year.
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One way to think about this is that Apple, one of the richest tech firms on the planet, is being outspent on web platform development by a non-profit which has a harder task (true multi-OS, separate netstack, etc.).
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The usual remedy is competition: better engines provide benefits to users, who chose the browsers that embed them.
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So WebKit/Safari are a double-whammy: Apple is fundamentally under-invested and prevents others from picking up the pieces. It's not the new IE6, it's more like the new IE7-9: updates include needed features, and all progress is good, but not nearly enough.
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...which brings us to this post by
@serhiikulykov (via@justinfagnani): https://dev.to/webpadawan/beyond-the-polyfills-how-web-components-affect-us-today-3j0a … Developer input _should_ matter to engine developers; without good feedback/improvement loops and real competition, it's hard to make progress happen fast enough to matter.Show this thread
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But the browser is so much more than just a rendering engine. While I'm certainly pro having multiple engines, if having Blink around allows multiple new browsers to experiment with better UIs, features, and experiments that seems like a win
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