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Being able to use Fennec F-Droid was my primary motivator to switch off of iPhone. It's not perfect, but there are things it offers that iOS Safari does not tha

by jchw 4y ago

Being able to use Fennec F-Droid was my primary motivator to switch off of iPhone. It's not perfect, but there are things it offers that iOS Safari does not that I consider to be absolute necessities for browsing the web. (uBlock Origin is certainly one of them, also WebM support.)

nostrebored 4y ago
WebM is supported on iOS Safari now!
- KingLancelot 4y ago
  Since when? I’m on iOS 16.3 and it doesnt support webm
- jchw 4y ago
  I've been told this at least three times now on HN over the years (pretty soon I'm going to start keeping a list of URLs so people know I'm not exaggerating.) Every single time it turns out that it isn't actually true. It was added to desktop Safari. iOS Safari supports VP9 only in WebRTC. It may have changed, but I can't find any evidence that it has. If you see it working somewhere, it is almost definitely using the polyfill[1]. [1]: https://github.com/brion/ogv.js/ https://github.com/brion/ogv.js/
  - 867-5309 4y ago
    fully supported since Sept 12th, 2022 according to https://caniuse.com/webm https://caniuse.com/webm edit: on MacOS (not iOS)