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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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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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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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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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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Supported on iOS Safari browser but not in the WebView which gets used in other apps/browsers
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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.Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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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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The question is, what can *realistically* be done ("as a community" i mean) to counter that ??
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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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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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