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Chrome on iOS is Safari but with Chrome skin. Apple does not allow other browser engines or does not even allow most Safari features to other browsers...
by sccxy 4y ago
Chrome on iOS is Safari but with Chrome skin.
Apple does not allow other browser engines or does not even allow most Safari features to other browsers...
- parasubvert 4y agoChrome and Firefox may use WebKit but have very different looks and feels and some different functionality. They’re not just “skins”.
- nobleach 4y agoThey use a Cocoa feature called [WkWebView] (https://developer.apple.com/documentation/webkit/wkwebview https://developer.apple.com/documentation/webkit/wkwebview) which is an embedded webkit browser. Any functionality that differs from Safari is not part of the actual "browser". It's just "skin" on top of it. (Bookmark syncing, etc)
- parasubvert 4y agoWkWebView is a web renderer and partial navigator, it's not a browser. My point is that people are really stretching the term "skin". Bookmark syncing, tab & window management, history management, security management etc. all are features of a browser, and they have a major impact on the UX of that browser. They are WHY there are still users of Firefox or Chrome on iOS! They're not "skin" features, which typically imply minor look & feel related items.
- sccxy 4y agoNot really different. They even share bugs. If Safari team messes up their rendering engine, then iOS update, and it is broken for every iOS browser...
- parasubvert 4y agoDo you use any of them regularly? I do. They're very different UX-wise. My point is that users don't really care about the common rendering engine. It doesn't have much impact on the day to day UX.