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Calling it a 'skin on top of Safari' does not really do justice to all the hard work my team has been putting in Firefox for iOS. Apple gives you (limited) acc
by st3fan 10y ago
Calling it a 'skin on top of Safari' does not really do justice to all the hard work my team has been putting in Firefox for iOS.
Apple gives you (limited) access to WebKit. Basically: a rectangular area on the screen that renders web content. To 'skin' it, you have to build a browser application around that. A complete application that handles tabs, user settings, sync, history, bookmarks, reader mode, anything that does not happen in that 'rectangular view that renders web content'.
- pier25 10y agoThe simple truth is that 99% of the time when browsing is spent on that "rectangular area". Maybe the term "skin" is not adequate, but IMO the features added by Chrome and Firefox on iOS are not that significant for the browsing experience compared to the "rectangular area". Thanks to Apple, WKWebView based browsers are always going to be second class citizens. Personally I never understood why you decided to move to iOS. I think you should have stick to your guns.