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While I get where the 'undermine' narrative is coming from, there are other, IMO more plausible, reasons why support is difficult: - Apple doesn't want others
by bzzzt 4y ago
While I get where the 'undermine' narrative is coming from, there are other, IMO more plausible, reasons why support is difficult:
- Apple doesn't want others to dictate their development schedule.
- Some Web standards clash with Apple's privacy promises.
While I'd like Apple to do a bit more about those long standing bugs, I think the narrative they are actively undermining the web is short sighted. I prefer Apple's behaviour instead of Google's behaviour to actively monopolise the web...
- wswope 4y agoYes, thank you for speaking up to defend Apple’s prerogatives here. No one should have to suffer through the (checks notes) privacy violations and grueling six-year implementation timeline of adding a date picker input to their browser. https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/input/date#browser_compatibility https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/in...
- illiarian 4y agoI wish HN had more complaints like this, and not the usual "whatever is the latest Chrome API of the day we need it in all browsers now!" --- As a tangent. If it was Apple of, say, 5-10 years ago, I'd also root for them to get their head out of their ass and lead in https://open-ui.org/ https://open-ui.org/ (started, of all people, by devs from Microsoft). Alas, with the way they approach interfaces these days, I'd want them far away from leading :)
- wdb 4y agoPretty confusing name when OpenUI5 already exists