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Safari isn't the new IE for one big reason: it's the only rendering engine on iOS, which means if you want to support mobile web, you have to support it, and th
by kylec 9y ago
Safari isn't the new IE for one big reason: it's the only rendering engine on iOS, which means if you want to support mobile web, you have to support it, and that won't change anytime soon.
- anotherbrownguy 9y agoIt sounds like it is the new IE, except you can't even install another browser.
- kalefranz 9y agoWasn't this exactly one of the items Microsoft got in trouble for with the European antitrust authorities?
- johncolanduoni 9y agoiOS doesn't have anywhere near the market share that Microsoft had/has on the desktop
- digi_owl 9y agoNot just the EU regulators. The US antitrust lawsuit was also about using their desktop OS marketshare, and the bundling of IE with said OS, to drive companies towards using IIS at the server end. Damn it, Microsoft basically coined the expression "Embrace, Extended, Extinguish". Meaning that they embrace some standard, then extend it with MS specific behavior, then extinguish the original standard via creeping incompatibilities.
- jowiar 9y agoDoing something like that is illegal if you have a monopoly. Apple doesn't (or even majority market share).
- ezequiel-garzon 9y agoCan't you download other browsers in iOS? In any event, it may not be relevant if most iOS users don't bother.
- allengeorge 9y agoDon't they have to use the iOS rendering engine?
- dreamcompiler 9y agoYes.
- Viper007Bond 9y agoThey're all Safari underneath.
- ezequiel-garzon 9y agoThanks for replying! (I don't own an iOS device, so please bear this in mind before further dowloading, dear fellow HNers.) If all browsers render the same way, what is the point of downloading Chrome or Firefox, just syncing? Thanks again.
- Viper007Bond 9y agoPretty much. Different UI and features but all the same rendering engine.
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- rainbowmverse 9y agoI know "all the money is on iOS" is verifiable for apps as a counter to Android's far greater market share, but is that true for the web? iOS might just be a little blip in both usage and money on the web.