If you install Firefox on Windows, MacOS, Linux, ChromeOS, or Android you get *real* Firefox, complete with the Gecko engine. But not on iOS. Apple cripples engine competition in silent, deeply impactful ways.https://twitter.com/slightlylate/status/1176856950086275072 …
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In that configuration, it only takes 34% of engines adopting that policy to stall all progress. So we should be clear and specific about what we want engine diversity to achieve. Ability to diverge/go-own-way? Perf competition? Feature pace? Ecosystem resilience?
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I think we've seen pretty clearly that if it weren't for other engines existing (and even with them), Chrome will kind of ignore the W3C and just do whatever the hell it wants. Monopolies are bad for the web. Always.
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Ideally, a browser maker's business and user/tech goals wouldn't conflict. Since they inevitably do, browser diversity helps alleviate that by avoiding monopoly. Engine diversity is a 2nd-order effect of that, but helps it. (Hence Blink instead of working on upstream Webkit, no?)
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I felt this recently reading the web app wg updates on PWA. Talks of dropping onBeforeInstallPrompt are blowing my mind kind of.
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