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webviews for clicking arbitrary links in apps like instagram or gmail are absurdly restrictive. i lose my context, cookies, and regular tools (bookmarks are gon

• jhgg 4y ago
  This is why https://developer.apple.com/documentation/safariservices/sfsafariviewcontroller https://developer.apple.com/documentation/safariservices/sfs... exists and why the blog post advocates for using it.
  • wonderbore 4y ago
    That was a great update, but still not a true browser. No tabs, no bookmarks. Why should the website be restricted to one tab? Just open Safari and be done with it.
    • thirdsun 4y ago
      If you want a true browser there's always the option to move the current page from the in-app Safari View to the full browser. In many cases I'd like to stay within the app. Those in-app Safari Webviews allows that. And if it is a website I'd like to browse in my usual, more permanent browsing evironment I always have th eoption to do so. This two step approach is more useful to me than always opening links in the browser.
    • joshu 4y ago
      exactly
• fleddr 4y ago
  They're supposed to be restrictive as to not confuse the user. An in-app browser isn't there to give you a full browsing experience, it's there to do a quick web-only task that somehow cannot be done in the native app itself.