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I don't think they really have a chance if I'm honest. I would rather like Apple to take the lead on this one. They have a ridiculous amount of money and contr
by hggigg 2y ago
I don't think they really have a chance if I'm honest.
I would rather like Apple to take the lead on this one. They have a ridiculous amount of money and control over a not insignificant portion of the market. They could use this for good if they tried simply from having enough momentum to kill anything bad dead by not implementing it.
It's not an ideal situation of course. Having the planet's core infrastructure completely open for contribution would be better.
(if only the EU used their fines to do that...)
- rwalle 2y agoWell, if Apple really wanted to do more, they would have implemented new APIs sooner and be in sync with Chrome and Firefox regarding features they support. (Currently Safari is often 1 year late in supporting lastest features.) I would not count on them.
- sevensor 2y agoI take it you disagree with the thesis of the article, which is that new features are a thing we need less of, as they’re being used to preclude the possibility of competition with the dominant browsers.
- mimasama 2y ago> They could use this for good if they tried simply from having enough momentum to kill anything bad dead by not implementing it. Funnily enough though a lot of web developers really hate Apple for this (going as far as claiming "Safari is the new IE" which is just ridiculous). But as a former Pale Moon developer I think Apple is the "lesser evil" than Mozilla exactly because they're "slow" in implementing the latest "Living Standard". Oh and just like us they've rolled out a JPEG XL support enabled by default in their stable release before Mozilla and Google did ;)