Problems IE6 *didn't* have: - Windows allowed other engines, not just other skins on a busted one -- that's how FF happened! - Other browsers embedding MSHTML.dll weren't broken in ways they couldn't repair (it was All COM All The Time (TM)) - Extensibility was a virtue https://twitter.com/_alastair/status/1214956116234424323 …
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Am I saying that what Apple has done to the web via iOS is worse than damage wrought by IE6? Yes, yes I am.
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Can W3C sue them or expell from the committee? Apple hurts the web on purpose in all the ways (maybe not in privacy), why are they allowed to participate in __open__ web standards, when their platform is closed af.
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I am genuinely interested in the answer (if any except marketshare)
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The short-ish version of the answer is that SDOs are where we document the things we agree on, or persuade the persuadable. This is a different class of badness that, in an earlier era (when Apple was making browsers for Windows!), would have been nearly unthinkable.
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