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I forget the nitty gritty details, but as I understand it: Apple's restrictions dictating what can and can't go in iOS apps makes it impossible for us to use Ge
by mnemonik 13y ago
I forget the nitty gritty details, but as I understand it: Apple's restrictions dictating what can and can't go in iOS apps makes it impossible for us to use Gecko on iOS.
Edit: Here is a more thorough answer: http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/945460#answer-392552 http://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/945460#answer-392...
- bennyg 13y agoAhh okay, I knew Safari was going to be the end all, be all of performant web browsers using strictly native Objective-C (and it uses webkit too I believe). I notice that you're looking for C++ help above, and was thinking that maybe native mixed with C++ could produce a nice user experience that people would crave on iOS. Haha I'm kind of just spitballing ideas here - I think not having Chrome sync and Safari sync is a good feature of iOS web browsers in a lot of different use cases. Plus a slim, portable Firefox clone could be pretty interesting to duke it out with those two as well as Dolphin and some other web browsers for the platform.
- jessedhillon 13y agoQuestion: how is this any different than the scheme Microsoft instituted in the 90s to artificially keep Office and MSIE superior to alternatives? Wasn't it this same regime which ultimately was ruled as anti-competive?
- paulbaumgart 13y agoThere's a big difference in market share. You need to have a monopoly and abuse that monopoly to violate anti-trust regulations.