The team is so darned small. They're great, but *wildly* understaffed. Apple could solve this by allowing better engines, or by investing reasonably. Doing neither gets you what we'v got: slow rot.
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Replying to @slightlylate
“Better” is subjective, based on your priorities. What in particular do you think is “rotting”? As a web dev, I can’t think of something that I’m excited about using in a real world project that I’m only waiting on Safari to implement. IMO they’ve kept up pretty well.
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That statement is worryingly circular, and part of how the architecture of control works: by withholding APIs for years, developers don't consider other widely-implemented features "available". We collectively lower our sights in response. Deadweight loss.
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Replying to @slightlylate
Ok, can you point to an example? Thinking back a few years, I can’t remember waiting to use a feature, or at least not for very long.
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Replying to @devongovett
We launched Service Workers and Push Notifications in Q1'15 after 3 years of (very public) work which Apple declined to join until (IIRC) '17. Safari launched a partially workable version of SWs in 11.1 at the end of Q3'18: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Safari_version_history#Safari_11 … https://caniuse.com/#feat=serviceworkers …
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iOS Safari still lacks Push Notifications, standing out as the only OS and browser pair to lack this feature.
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Replying to @slightlylate @devongovett
getUserMedia() and camera selection, Media Recorder API, WebGL 2.0, Background Sync...I could go on and on and on and on.
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I've personally never needed any of those features. Not to say that they are not useful features, or that no one wants them, but you have to prioritize. Was Apple involved in the standards process for any of these features? Was there a process, or did Google just implement them?
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Replying to @devongovett
We don't do anything w/o a long, open, standards-based process. Service Workers were co-designed w/ Mozilla, MSFT, etc. etc. Apple was asked (many times) and joined late.
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semi-related - any idea why support for HLS is mobile only on the Chrome side? https://caniuse.com/#feat=http-live-streaming …
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Unsure. Can look.
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