Perhaps the hardest part to understand and appreciate is the extent to which the people who should be fighting for these users aren't. The board of @mozilla has a lot to answer for, given their mission: https://www.mozilla.org/en-US/mission/ https://twitter.com/slightlylate/status/979097423510294529 …
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I expect Mark Zuckerberg to be an absentee landlord of a growing empire...that's capitalism. But where's
@cbeard or@MitchellBaker? The future is mobile. Where-the-AF-are-you,@mozilla? We need you in this fight.6 replies 0 retweets 16 likesShow this thread -
There will be all the "you've drunk the Google kook-aid" flack on this thread. Nerp. I work places that have serious, legitimate plans to make the web something other than a desktop-only, legacy-centric OS. So I work on
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I like to think we have a lean, mean engine here in WebKit. Actually the most lean-n-mean.
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I like me some modern
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OK, we’ll focus on modern rather than legacy then. But let’s talk mobile web in emerging markets. I get the push for offline and more device APIs. But where are we on: 1) Power consumption? 2) Data consumption? 3) Safety of non-curated apps? 4) UI consistency? 5) Accessibility?
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Power: hard (both to measure and control). Data: web often the winner; PWAs are frequently a (tiny) fraction the size. Safety: web sandbox beats unlatched Android! Consistency: it's an open platform. a11y: not as good
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Power: Hard problems need love too. Could we come up with something? Data: If we could agree on incentives we could probably shave it down significantly. Safety: I don’t know enough about Android curation. Especially not outside Google Play Store.
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Power's a continual battle; but our best weapons have been BattOr's (http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~schulman/battor.html …) and an increasingly sophisticated scheduler.
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Named PWAs w/
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