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Chrome Project 🐡 & Web Standards TL; Blink API OWNER Named PWAs w/ @phae; probably making her ☕ DMs open. Tweets my own; press@google.com for official comms.

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    1. Alex Russell‏ @slightlylate 25 Sep 2019
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      Asked an entire room full of webdevs yesterday if any of them knew that FF/Chrome/Opera/Brave/etc. for iOS weren't allowed to compete on engine quality. Zero hands up.

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    2. Alex Russell‏ @slightlylate 25 Sep 2019
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      The consequences of being forced into WebKit WebView on iOS are massive. Every browser there faces a Sophie's Choice: fast JS or no netstack pluggability. They all choose not losing benchmarks by a huge amount. And that's only one in the long line of constraints.

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      Alex Russell‏ @slightlylate 25 Sep 2019
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      Alternative browsers on iOS can never *really* be the default. And they can't use their own engines. And they can't use Service Workers, which means no Push Notifications or offline support. And no PWA installability. Etc. etc.

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        2. Alex Russell‏ @slightlylate 25 Sep 2019
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          Apple dramatically under-invests in WebKit, which means that the richest users have the jankiest web, and switching browsers doesn't help. Business decision makers don't think the web can deliver the experiences they want to give users because, on iOS (which they use), it can't.

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        3. Alex Russell‏ @slightlylate 25 Sep 2019
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          The soft bigotry of low expectations ensues. The mobile web can't succeed when Apple is allowed to stack the rules against it.

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        4. Alex Russell‏ @slightlylate 25 Sep 2019
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          Apple undermining the future of the web is a scandal with echoes of FB's IAB shenanigans. The common thread is hiding bad engines behind UI that *suggests* that everything is on the level. It's expectation arbitrage, and the future of web is what's being shorted.

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        2. Adam Rackis‏ @AdamRackis 26 Sep 2019
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          Not to disagree with the larger point here, but does iOS still not support Service Workers? I could have sworn I read (awhile ago) that was coming.

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        3. Preet Shihn‏ @preetster 26 Sep 2019
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          Supported on iOS Safari browser but not in the WebView which gets used in other apps/browsers

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        1. Umur Gedik‏ @umurgdk 25 Sep 2019
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          This is actually great. So no bullshit allowed 😇 I would even like it more if the webview was a private api. Give me decent apps.

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        1. Steakback Outhouse‏ @duane_moody 25 Sep 2019
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          It's a constant in iOS that if it has the potential to shatter the illusion of speed it's not supported. HTML5 is still not close to parity with Flash yet it was sold as a Flash killer when Jobs was alive.

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        1. Fabio Monte‏ @monteirf 25 Sep 2019
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          The question is, what can *realistically* be done ("as a community" i mean) to counter that ??

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        1. Patrick Westerhoff‏ @poke 26 Sep 2019
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          And people (/the EU) complained that Microsoft dared to ship a bundled browser (that you can totally replace) by default with their operating system… 🙄

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        1. Michał Gołębiowski-Owczarek‏ @m_gol 2 Oct 2019
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          A counterpoint: allowing other engines on iOS would cause a total Blink domination, far greater than it already is. I don’t like a prospect of Google unilaterally controlling the whole Web.

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