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Mostly because they care about user experience of people using their phones. There is nothing that comes close to WebKit in terms of performance/battery life on
by freediver 3y ago
Mostly because they care about user experience of people using their phones. There is nothing that comes close to WebKit in terms of performance/battery life on Apple devices, even on desktop, where other browser vendors have been able to develop their rendering engineswithout restrictions, WebKit is still far ahead.
- lostmsu 3y ago> There is nothing that comes close to WebKit in terms of performance/battery life on Apple devices, even on desktop Now this is a true gem.
- jwells89 3y agoWebKit is also a bit better than other engines in “nativeness” too, with e.g. in-page widget behavior and such. Blink is second best here probably thanks to its shared heritage with WebKit, and Gecko is last with unstyled widgets and little behaviors being “off”. The battery life/heat thing is big though, Safari is much better in that category and it seems like that property extends to WebKit browsers on Linux too in my limited trials with GNOME Web, so it’s not just a case of Apple using private APIs to gain an advantage or whatever. It’s a difference in architecture and likely dev culture — efficiency simply doesn’t get prioritized to the same extent by the dev teams of the other two engines. With Blink especially there seems to be more interest in coming up with APIs to give devs access to the contents of the user’s fridge or whathaveyou.