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Yes, which is why the EU’s recent legislation is a terrible, terrible thing. The People’s cry for other rendering engines on iOS is a sham (the free market chos
by btmiller 4y ago
Yes, which is why the EU’s recent legislation is a terrible, terrible thing. The People’s cry for other rendering engines on iOS is a sham (the free market chose iOS among other, more permissive and equally viable platforms). Real people don’t care, and real people won’t notice because they do not care what rendering engine is powering their browser. They only care that websites work and that browsers provide the features they expect. But thanks to the EU, the death of non-Chromium browsers just accelerated to the benefit of no real person. Mozilla will of course continue to make nice browser features, but the day will come when a blog post details their reasons for ditching Gecko. Real people won’t notice and the industry will have further reduced (read: eliminated) engine diversity - the very thing EU was trying to avoid.
- NonNefarious 4y agoAmen. I was a complainer about Apple's insistence on WebKit, but when I thought it through I realized that it's the only bulkhead against a total Chrome takeover. I admire a lot of Europe's consumer protections, but this EU legislation is a huge overreach, written by politicians pandering to hype that they are too ignorant to assess.
- chasil 4y agoKHTML from the KDE project was Apple's surprise choice for the Safari browser, in preference to Gecko. Everyone expected Apple to choose Gecko for their rendering engine. Chrome and Safari both ran WebKit for many years until Google forked to the Blink engine. Blink (as a descendent) is far closer to Webkit than either are to Gecko. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/KHTML https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/KHTML
- NonNefarious 4y agoThanks for the info.
- mtomweb 4y agoApple's ban on third-party browsers on iOS has caused enormous damage to the web ecosystem. We explain this in great detail including browser diversity arguments here: https://open-web-advocacy.org/files/OWA%20-%20Bringing%20Competition%20to%20Walled%20Gardens%20-%20v1.2.pdf https://open-web-advocacy.org/files/OWA%20-%20Bringing%20Com...