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by agust 4y ago
You realise that's what Apple has been doing for the past 15 years? Force users to do what's best for them, and only them? Anti-competitive practices do not serve customers, they increase prices and prevent innovation.
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by agust 4y ago
Yes it does, that's a totally different situation. Edge chose to use Chromium as its engine, Microsoft takes part in its development, they are free to remove or add any component from it, and if ever they wanted to they would be free
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by agust 4y ago
Open Web Advocacy does address anti-competitive practices from Google. See their submission to the Japanese regulator: https://open-web-advocacy.org/files/OWA%20-%20HDMC%20(Japan)... Section 3.1.7 - No Chrome Preferenc
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by agust 4y ago
Chrome is competition, and no, it's not alone: on the desktop market, where competition is not rigged as much as on mobile, Edge has 10% market share, and Firefox 7.5%. It's not insignificant. > I want one of these “just open
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by agust 4y ago
Open Web Advocacy has been very clear that they want competition on iOS, not Chrome specifically. The reason being that the absence of competition is currently allowing Apple to deteriorate the web experience on iOS, preventing the web an
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by agust 4y ago
The size of macOS market is not relevant for the point being made here. What matters is that macOS is very similar to iOS in that it is owned by Apple, Safari is available on it, and comes pre-installed. The only difference is that on macOS
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by agust 4y ago
"A native app would do just fine", why would we want to build a native app using proprietary tech, be forced to go through an app store, risk to be turn down by Apple and be taxed 30% of our revenue otherwise? All this when we can
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by agust 4y ago
Container Queries and Subgrid are only available in Safari Technology Preview, not stable, and Firefox has actually been supporting Subgrid for more than 2 years. Because CQ is not supported by either Chrome of Firefox, it will be at least
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by agust 4y ago
The caniuse data shows that the number of APIs Chrome supports that Safari doesn't is at least 3 times higher than the opposite, and among the APIs Safari supports that Chrome don't, most are either too old and useless, too new an
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by agust 4y ago
I am sorry but a two-pages app with a text input and two buttons does not qualify as a "non-trivial" app.
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by agust 4y ago
It 100% did not in that universe. Safari is massively lagging behind, and has been for so long it will certainly be years before it catches up with Chromium or Firefox.
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by agust 4y ago
If you actually wrote a complex web application and didn't encounter significant bugs in Safari, you either didn't test very well, or your app, although "complex", doesn't try to do much.
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by agust 4y ago
Safari is in no way a better browser than any competitor. It is widely known in the web developer community that it is rigged with bugs and lagging behind in terms of features.
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by agust 4y ago
Please consider the relevant viewpoint before commenting. This is about the reliability and capabilities of Safari as a target for websites and web applications from a developer point of view, not the reliability from a user point of view (
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by agust 4y ago
iOS 16 is not out yet, and Apple stated that Push notifications won't come before 2023. So no, Push notifications have not landed (yet).
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Telegram's CEO suspects Apple is intentionally crippling web apps(t.me)
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by agust 4y ago
More than Apple (which prevented the feature from being available on iOS for 7+ years and still hasn't shipped it) you should probably thank the regulators who are investigating Apple's anti-competitive practices and the web devel
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by agust 4y ago
Competition from Apple? Why would people use Chrome if Safari is as good or better?
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by agust 4y ago
It's highly unlikely that opening up iOS to competing browser engines will result in Chrome taking over. It has always been that way on macOS, and yet Safari is dominant there with around 60% market share. What is much more likely is t
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by agust 4y ago
It's actually already happening. Since the CMA started investigating around October last year, Apple has issued more than 70 job listings for WebKit, at least half of which have already been filled. They also have significantly increas
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by agust 4y ago
It is indeed a risk. A risk that the CMA is well aware of though, and among the remedies considered are also present: - "mandating access to certain functionality for browsers (including supporting web apps)"; - "requiring Ap
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by agust 4y ago
To clarify what this is about regarding Apple: After a year long market study, the CMA has concluded that Apple's browser engine ban on iOS in anti-competitive and distort the browser market, as well as limit the capabilities of web ap
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by agust 4y ago
Requiring them to stop banning competing browser engines? That's the number one remedy considered by the CMA. You should read the study, it's very insightful.
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by agust 4y ago
Extremely unlikely: browsers are not banned to use their own engine on macOS, and yet Safari is dominant there with around 60% market share. The fact that people think that tells a lot about the quality of Safari: "if people could use
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by agust 4y ago
They have accelerated and started hiring massively around October last year, that is when several regulators started investigating the browser engine ban on iOS (the CMA in the UK first).
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by agust 4y ago
Hmm really? How do you do that? The `rem` and `em` CSS units do not reflect iOS font-size settings if this is what you mean (I don't know about Android).
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by agust 4y ago
What about giving websites and web apps the ability to detect the font size preference of the user to automatically adjust the font size? Just like native apps do...?
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by agust 4y ago
And what distinguish them exactly...? And why would disabling zooming be fine for one but not the other?
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by agust 4y ago
Yes, so I think advocating for a general solution for websites and web apps to either be able to respect OS font size settings, or to provide users with the possibility to adjust font size would be preferable I think. There are very legitim
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by agust 4y ago
What's the rational for not wanting websites and web apps to disable zoom, and not complaining about all native apps doing it? Would these people want to be able to zoom in native apps as well? Or is there a reason it's fine in na

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