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>> Apple's version of Safari will remain versions ahead of UIWebView meaning that any non-Safari browser will remain inferior by intentional design. My hope is
by the_watcher 12y ago
>> Apple's version of Safari will remain versions ahead of UIWebView meaning that any non-Safari browser will remain inferior by intentional design.
My hope is that deep-linking can make this somewhat irrelevant. If you can deep link to Safari from where you'd otherwise use UIWebView, and design a system that allows you to return to the app you were in when you finish (an easy one, like letting the back button take you back to the previous app), then a lot of these issues are somewhat solved.
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- criley2 12y agoBut it means IMO that innovation and competition are limited on iOS. On Android, I use Firefox (with the real gecko engine), Chrome Beta and Dolphin. I mainly use Firefox, which is a great mobile browser that fully supports extensions, and has some incredible mobile extensions. These kinds of innovations are imposssible in iOS, and deeplinking only hides the fact that real innovation in mobile is impossible on iOS. I don't want to use Apple's evolutionary improved one-size-fits-all-app, I want to see what real competition in an open marketplace is capable of achieving. Think of this: in a world where mobile rules desktop by a huge margin, and a world where iOS rules all other smartphones, the only major browser developers would work for Apple and no one else would be able to compete by design. It's unrealistic, but possible. I don't like not having choice, and being told that Apple knows best.