Apple Pay coming to Safari is at least as important as Service Worker for keeping the mobile web viable—maybe more important.
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Replying to @tomdale
Doesn't give the same Open Web warm and fuzzies, but from a business perspective, having a low-friction way to monetize users is critical.
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Replying to @tomdale
That Safari seems to have beaten Chrome to the punch on this is evidence that they still care about the web—just have different priorities.
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Replying to @tomdale
beaten, because we've been working on the standardised effort. Maybe we should stop doing that?
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Replying to @jaffathecake
Like I said, clear precedent of proprietary experimentation before standardization. Clear line from Chrome apps -> SW.
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Replying to @tomdale @jaffathecake
At least ApplePay.js can be easily abstracted over w/ a library. Chrome apps were highly proprietary for years.
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Replying to @tomdale
but I thought we'd left the prefix days behind us on the open web. Apple said that too.
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Replying to @jaffathecake
Chrome people told me point blank they'd ship Web Components over objections of other browsers, hardly seems that different
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I hear that from people from time to time but it doesn't seem to be a winning position inside chrome.
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