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As much as I hate that no other browser engine is allowed on iOS, browser engine monoculture is toxic, and overtly caustic to the open web as a whole. Safari of
by Tsiklon 4y ago
As much as I hate that no other browser engine is allowed on iOS, browser engine monoculture is toxic, and overtly caustic to the open web as a whole. Safari officially adopting Blink would have wide rippling effects beyond Apple's own ecosystem. It would likely also sound the death knell for Firefox in it's blast radius.
This would surrender web standards as a whole to Google, who in my opinion, cannot be trusted to equitably shepherd this forward; given their propensity to push their own browser heavily, push non-standards forward and so adversely affect their own sites on rival browsers who do not use their extensions to the specifications.
- sroussey 4y agoI really wish that Microsoft went with Gecko (Firefox) instead of Chromium. That would have spread out user across the the three main browser engines.