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Since they are working with SpiderMonkey (Firefox JS engine), I wonder if that opens the door to a Gecko based browser on iOS with decent enough performance. Th

Since they are working with SpiderMonkey (Firefox JS engine), I wonder if that opens the door to a Gecko based browser on iOS with decent enough performance. That would be a game changer!

MaxBarraclough 5y ago
No, that's forbidden by the App Store rules, with a possible exception where the HTML is supplied by the app itself rather than being downloaded. [0] From Section 2.5.6: > Apps that browse the web must use the appropriate WebKit framework and WebKit Javascript. Also Section 4.7: > only uses capabilities available in a standard WebKit view (e.g. it must open and run natively in Safari without modifications or additional software) [0] https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/ https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/
- oscargrouch 5y ago
  This is like a car company that also have a tire company, also providing the tires. So far so good, but the company that makes the car only allow you to use its own tire brand, no others are allowed. How legislators can easily spot problems in bad company practices that forces monopoly in material objects but are so obnoxious to everything digital? I see even tech veterans here struggling in seeing that there's a big problem in all this.. Its like Microsoft not only shipping IE with windows, but making web sites slow in other browsers on purpose so at least in Windows nobody would use the IE competitors. Why Apple is getting away for more than 10 years to such shady practices is beyond comprehension. And this is just one of them.
  - pjmlp 5y ago
    Market share, that is how.
- sojuz151 5y ago
  You could create a website where you could browse the internet with a browser written in JS. No apple approval needed.
  - maxmcd 5y ago
    I think the wasm runtime wouldn't have access to system UI primitives. Or would you use the rendering engine to render in canvas?
  - willio58 5y ago
    They could make it a full blown web app too. App icon, notifications, etc.

Since they are working with SpiderMonkey (Firefox JS engine), I wonder if that opens the door to a Gecko based browser on iOS with decent enough performance. That would be a game changer!

MaxBarraclough 5y ago

No, that's forbidden by the App Store rules, with a possible exception where the HTML is supplied by the app itself rather than being downloaded. [0] From Section 2.5.6: > Apps that browse the web must use the appropriate WebKit framework and WebKit Javascript. Also Section 4.7: > only uses capabilities available in a standard WebKit view (e.g. it must open and run natively in Safari without modifications or additional software) [0] https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/ https://developer.apple.com/app-store/review/guidelines/

oscargrouch 5y ago
This is like a car company that also have a tire company, also providing the tires. So far so good, but the company that makes the car only allow you to use its own tire brand, no others are allowed. How legislators can easily spot problems in bad company practices that forces monopoly in material objects but are so obnoxious to everything digital? I see even tech veterans here struggling in seeing that there's a big problem in all this.. Its like Microsoft not only shipping IE with windows, but making web sites slow in other browsers on purpose so at least in Windows nobody would use the IE competitors. Why Apple is getting away for more than 10 years to such shady practices is beyond comprehension. And this is just one of them.
- pjmlp 5y ago
  Market share, that is how.
sojuz151 5y ago
You could create a website where you could browse the internet with a browser written in JS. No apple approval needed.
- maxmcd 5y ago
  I think the wasm runtime wouldn't have access to system UI primitives. Or would you use the rendering engine to render in canvas?
- willio58 5y ago
  They could make it a full blown web app too. App icon, notifications, etc.