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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 13 Oct 2019
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      Even @daringfireball -- part-time "friend of the web" play-actor and full-time enabler of Apple killing the web's future via App Store policies -- can't *link to the bloody website* 🤦‍♂️🤷‍♂️🤦‍♂️ https://daringfireball.net/linked/2019/10/10/cook-hkmap-live-email … /cc @Pinboardhttps://twitter.com/slightlylate/status/1182985829842595840 …

      Alex Russell added,

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      It's infinitely frustrating to see press coverage of http://HKmap.live  that doesn't *actually link to http://HKmap.live * which is a real, bona-fide website that does the job.
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    2. Alex Russell‏ @slightlylate 13 Oct 2019
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      And before we go all "citation needed", here's the sort of enabling BS Gruber gets up to in order to excuse Apple's fundamentally anti-web policies: https://daringfireball.net/2014/11/native_apps_are_part_of_the_web … You can't square it with a functional definition of "the web" (via @backlon):https://www.theverge.com/2017/5/24/15681958/what-is-web-definition …

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    3. Dieter Bohn‏Verified account @backlon 13 Oct 2019
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      I don’t know that I would call that piece “BS,” but true story: trying to explain exactly what I thought was wrong with that definition and also justify it is what eventually led to my brief definition piece.

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    4. Alex Russell‏ @slightlylate 13 Oct 2019
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      Apologies if that read as misattribution. *I* think it's very much BS, as in active deception to cause doubt about the veracity of what one can see with their own eyes. The mobile web is dying (our data is unequivocal on this) and folks like Gruber have greased Apple's wheels.

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    5. Alex Russell‏ @slightlylate 13 Oct 2019
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      They've also created a permission structure for other vendors to follow suit and for FB et. al. to undermine user choice in browsers, e.g.: https://twitter.com/slightlylate/status/1167521819789627392 …https://twitter.com/slightlylate/status/1167548118876901376 …

      Alex Russell added,

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      Here's the "fun" Hotel California of FB's In-App-Browser opt-out flow. Unlike many other settings, it does not sync across devices (wonder why that is?). (thread!) https://twitter.com/stefanpenner/status/1167547713765855232 …
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    6. Dieter Bohn‏Verified account @backlon 13 Oct 2019
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      Replying to @slightlylate @daringfireball @Pinboard

      Yep, but also I can’t be fully outraged. The pivot to apps was a rational response to how bad the mobile web had become — and in 2014 the effects of a restrictive walled garden were much more theoretical than they seem in this moment.https://www.theverge.com/2015/7/20/9002721/the-mobile-web-sucks …

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      Alex Russell‏ @slightlylate 13 Oct 2019
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      Replying to @backlon @daringfireball @Pinboard

      By 2014, the Safari team had been starved for a good long while and we (Chrome) had stopped trying to collaborate inside WebKit. It had become *very* clear Apple wasn't keen to expand what the platform could do. Deadweight loss is still loss.

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        2. Alex Russell‏ @slightlylate 13 Oct 2019
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          Replying to @slightlylate @backlon and

          Want to be super clear: I don't blame any of this on the hearty souls that work on WebKit/Safari. They're trying their best with what they're given, and in terms of both latitude and funding, it's thin gruel with rations set well above the engineering pay-grade.

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        3. Alex Russell‏ @slightlylate 13 Oct 2019
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          I feel for them. Couldn't have been fun to see the folks who worked so hard on the WebKit Service Worker impl see their system turned off for other iOS browsers, e.g.

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