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by agust 4y ago
False narrative. Google is building a web browser engine that matches the current needs of developers, while Apple has under-invested in its engine for years, leaving it rigged with bugs and lagging behind others in an obvious attempt to pr
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by agust 5y ago
Nice game! As others have mentioned, it feels like a 2D rubix cube, which I never managed to finish. Feeling more comfortable with this version. I'd love it if it could be installed on the homescreen on mobile, with proper icon, splash
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by agust 5y ago
Not sure about the fastest, but definitely the most buggy web experience you can get, unfortunately.
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by agust 5y ago
Very convincing, thank you for this well argued response.
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by agust 5y ago
Sure, simple websites mostly work in Safari. But we're in 2022, and indeed a lot of companies develop web apps, and not simple websites like 20 years ago. The web itself is an app platform. The only browser preventing it to happen on m
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by agust 5y ago
That's definitely not representative of the general sentiment. As far as I'm concerned, probably around 95% of my debugging time is spent on Safari. Stuff usually works like a charm in Chrome or Firefox. Safari is a gigantic pain
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by agust 5y ago
If websites are turned into web apps with more features, it's probably because it's bringing in money, in the form of users or consumers, don't you think? If consumers tended to like simple "interactive" websites li
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by agust 5y ago
If websites/web apps are adopting these features, maybe it's because they're useful? You're free to use a 10 years old browser and keep reading document-like websites. In the meantime I'll be using all the goodness
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by agust 5y ago
See the section added to the website to clear things up: https://open-web-advocacy.org/#really This is not funded by any company, it's a volunteer community effort.
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by agust 5y ago
Names and clarification have been added to the website: https://open-web-advocacy.org/#really
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by agust 5y ago
Names were just added to the website to clear things up: https://open-web-advocacy.org/#really
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by agust 5y ago
Except Apple is making it impossible for web apps to compete with natives apps by crippling Safari with bugs and not implementing crucial features like push notifications, while banning competing browser engines who could do so. So no, curr
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Apple proposes 27% commission in Dutch app store dispute(theverge.com)
2 points by agust 5y ago|0 comments
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One week left to save the Web(brucelawson.co.uk)
2 points by agust 5y ago|0 comments
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by agust 5y ago
Really disturbing that there is not even a word on Apple browser engine ban on iOS, holding the mobile web back for years. Mozilla can't ship their own browser on a billion devices worldwide and they're just fine with it.
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Safari 15 IndexedDB Leaks(safarileaks.com)
130 points by agust 5y ago|29 comments
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On the CMA’s interim report on mobile ecosystems(brucelawson.co.uk)
1 points by agust 5y ago|0 comments
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by agust 5y ago
Definitely. The situation on iOS is much worse than it ever was on Windows. Apple is banning all competition in the browser space on more than 1 billion devices worldwide. Antitrust legislators would surely be very interested in this if the
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by agust 5y ago
You must be living in a parallel universe. On desktop pretty much the entire app industry as shifted to the web, including recently the very well-known and used software that are Office 365 and Photoshop. Most people are perfectly happy wit
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by agust 5y ago
Their Safari browser, running on WebKit, is full of bugs and lagging behind in features such as Push Notifications, Install prompts for Web Apps, and many many others. It makes it impossible to have quality Web Apps running through Safari.
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by agust 5y ago
Opening iOS to competing browser engines is unlikely to lead to Chrome being dominant there. Safari has more than 60% market share on macOS where they've never been banned. What it could lead to though is some real investment in Safari
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by agust 5y ago
The point is not that the people aware of the situation can avoid using these services, the point is that Microsoft (just like Apple and Google) is abusing its control over the OS to entice millions of people to use their own services. This
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by agust 5y ago
Also unbundle Safari from iOS and put an end to the browser engines ban. That's far worse than default software on Windows and Android.
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by agust 5y ago
There are more information about the context of this presentation to the CMA here: https://www.kryogenix.org/days/2021/09/06/talking-to-the-com...
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by agust 5y ago
Note that this is from October 2020, but still very relevant today.
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by agust 5y ago
I honestly thought showing how consumers are able to make informed choices in other and as technical markets like computers, mobile devices and other softwares categories, plus the fact that it is the case for web browsers on any other OS,
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by agust 5y ago
The EU Commission and several other competition bodies are currently studying Apple's anticompetitive practices. The reason it has avoided their action until now is probably due to the technicality of the issue and its deep ramificatio
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by agust 5y ago
Yes, users can make an informed choice about what product to use or to buy. This is true for computers, this is true for mobile devices, this is true for any kind of software, and obviously this is true for web browsers. People have been do
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by agust 5y ago
Chrome has the biggest market share (outside of iOS) because it has the more features (that is web APIs) and less bugs, making it the most reliable browser. It is very common to encounter websites or applications which do not work properly
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by agust 5y ago
Any web developer would tell you that nowadays Blink (Google's WebKit fork) and WebKit are very different. Blink has more features than WebKit, and less bugs. So with Gecko (Firefox's engine) we really have three different browser

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