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Because one of them is a team that is primarily funded by grants but generally tries to do the right thing and the other is the richest company in the world who

by mdhb 3y ago

Because one of them is a team that is primarily funded by grants but generally tries to do the right thing and the other is the richest company in the world who have a track record over a decade long of actively trying to cripple the web and force everyone into their walled garden. It shouldn’t be a shock that people might feel very differently about those two organisations based on their previous actions and all.

JimDabell 3y ago
Mozilla has half a billion in revenue and a billion in cash reserves they seem to want to spend on anything but their browser. Mozilla is no pauper. When 1/3 rendering engines implement something, that engine is ahead. When 2/3 engines implement something, the other engine is behind. But you are so keen on dunking on Apple, you’re perceiving 1/3 engines implementing something means that just one of the other two engines is behind. That’s an incredibly lopsided way of viewing things.
- mdhb 3y ago
  For what it’s worth it’s actually at 72% support according to Can I Use data and nothing at all like your 1/3 claim and as I mentioned has a polyfill. I don’t know why it is but almost every time I see your username pop up on HN it’s always bending over backwards to protect Apple from some perceived criticism. People are allowed to talk shit about them, they are going to be ok I promise.
  - aragilar 3y ago
    That doesn't tell you how many different engines there are that support it though, only the amount of marketshare covered. Compare it to web-bluetooth (which both Apple and Mozilla have rejected and is hence not a standard): https://caniuse.com/web-bluetooth https://caniuse.com/web-bluetooth, which shows 76.24% (as of this post's time). Chromium-based broswers have it, others do not, hence it doesn't really matter what the actual percentage is, only which engines support it (and currently, of the big 3, only 1 does support it).

by mdhb 3y ago

JimDabell 3y ago

Mozilla has half a billion in revenue and a billion in cash reserves they seem to want to spend on anything but their browser. Mozilla is no pauper. When 1/3 rendering engines implement something, that engine is ahead. When 2/3 engines implement something, the other engine is behind. But you are so keen on dunking on Apple, you’re perceiving 1/3 engines implementing something means that just one of the other two engines is behind. That’s an incredibly lopsided way of viewing things.

mdhb 3y ago
For what it’s worth it’s actually at 72% support according to Can I Use data and nothing at all like your 1/3 claim and as I mentioned has a polyfill. I don’t know why it is but almost every time I see your username pop up on HN it’s always bending over backwards to protect Apple from some perceived criticism. People are allowed to talk shit about them, they are going to be ok I promise.
- aragilar 3y ago
  That doesn't tell you how many different engines there are that support it though, only the amount of marketshare covered. Compare it to web-bluetooth (which both Apple and Mozilla have rejected and is hence not a standard): https://caniuse.com/web-bluetooth https://caniuse.com/web-bluetooth, which shows 76.24% (as of this post's time). Chromium-based broswers have it, others do not, hence it doesn't really matter what the actual percentage is, only which engines support it (and currently, of the big 3, only 1 does support it).