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Will it eventually be available on iOS?

• robin_reala 15y ago
  No. Apple currently don’t allow any browser engines apart from their standardised WebKit on iOS. This is why you can’t currently get Opera or Firefox on iOS (leaving aside Opera Mini which skirts the rules by running the engine on a proxy server).
  • shareme 15y ago
    not correct, if Google ports their features back to Webkit and they are accepted by the Webkit project than yes you will see it on iOS as Apple uses the Webkit project.
    • MatthewPhillips 15y ago
      > and they are accepted by the Webkit project No, Apple doesn't implement every feature that is pushed to WebKit, they maintain their own fork like everyone else.
    • nextparadigms 15y ago
      But won't the engines have to be identical? Won't Chrome have to use the exact same engine/version as Mobile Safari? Chrome for Android actually uses a newer version of Webkit than Mobile Safari, according to Anandtech, and it has a higher HTML5 score. And what about V8 and all the other features? Or they only have to use the same rendering engine?
      • fpgeek 15y ago
        V8, as an interpreter of downloadable code (JavaScript), is explicitly and intentionally forbidden by Apple's rules for their app store.
• nextparadigms 15y ago
  Does Apple allow any "full browser" on iOS? Opera Mini and Skyfire don't count. I figure Firefox and Opera Mobile would've been there by now if they did.
• dasmoth 15y ago
  Also wondering about WP7. Right now it's clearly a non-starter, but there do seem to be plans afoot for a native SDK. Assuming that happens at some point, would an alternative browser be possible?