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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The essential question they've addressed from multiple data-sets is "is Chrome pulling so far ahead on features that other browsers can't keep up?" The data is complex, and the error bars are enormous.
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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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There's some truth in that, but also some other factors in play...
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Sure, always. But breaking the connection between engine and browser breaks all engine competition.
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