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by mtomweb 4y ago
Scanning is native only. Web Bluetooth does not slow scanning and you have to specify specific device categories or services to connect too without being able to work out what devices are there first. Read the security section on the Web B
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by mtomweb 4y ago
That’s a week cop out from Apple when they offer far less protection in Native and allow apps to use Bluetooth to monitor your location. Web Bluetooth has much BETTER security and privacy than native. By not providing functionality it forc
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by mtomweb 4y ago
FYI only native signs a blank cheque and lets you scan for devices in the background. Web Bluetooth requires the browser itself to connect to a device and specify a service for you to connect too.
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by mtomweb 4y ago
It’s not a coincidence, Apple just didn’t have any motivation to invest in Safari until the threat of competition came along. The increased investment is great for Safari and the web, now we just need some core functionality to support mobi
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by mtomweb 4y ago
At this point, I think the chances the US won’t adopt similar stances as the EU in relation to browser engines as close to zero.
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by mtomweb 4y ago
Significantly reducing the costs of app development is desirable in so many different ways.
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by mtomweb 5y ago
If you want document this and contribute to the group, please do. Our group is volunteer only and so we can only focus on issues that are contributed. We have a GitHub for more formal conversations and discord for chat. We will tackle the m
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by mtomweb 5y ago
I'm not advocating solely for chrome. Safari/webkit was severely underfunded and neglected by Apple and was slipping further behind every year in addition to being unsuitable / unstable as an application platform. By restori
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by mtomweb 5y ago
I'm well aware of your long held opinions but really we are advocating on behalf of people who believe the web is the future. Additionally we believe in competition and browser choice. There will always be others who think that other
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by mtomweb 5y ago
We're happy to target anti-competitive behaviour from any operating system or browser if it relates to the open-web. Currently our main focus is user's browser choice on all operating systems is possible and respected to restore t
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by mtomweb 5y ago
Hi, I’m Matthew Thomas. I set up the open-web-advocacy.org and am the primary author of the document. We don’t want this to be about personalities and want to focus on the problems at hand. Happy to answer questions and I hope some of you w
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by mtomweb 5y ago
Hi! I’m @mtomweb on Twitter. I and everyone one else doesn’t work or get paid by any of the browser vendors (or anyone else for that matter). I run a small business doing POS systems that’d you’d have never heard off. People just assume t
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by mtomweb 5y ago
If you can’t get 60fps on a midrange consumer device you are doing something wrong. WebGL / Canvas are web standards, no issue with using them.
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by mtomweb 5y ago
There’s nothing inherently special to native about painting to the screen 60 times a second. Web Apps if allowed could provide equivalent (and sometimes much better) experiences than native. But it’s a chicken and egg problem, and it’s main
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by mtomweb 5y ago
I’d have been very impressed if PR could have written a document with that much technical detail. All of us are web devs, none of us writers or legal/policy people or are paid or affiliated with by any major company. We’re the opposit
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by mtomweb 5y ago
Privacy is worse on native, and we shouldn’t copy that. If others read the section on Bluetooth it outlines how poor native protections are. Full integration of web app settings into the OS is essential for users to be able to control their
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by mtomweb 5y ago
We’re just a group of various web developers, unpaid, unfunded and not backed by any organization. The repo is on GitHub (currently private) but we will be making it public. We’re all in the discord group at the moment if your interested i
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by mtomweb 5y ago
We tested a bunch of different platform, discord just seemed easiest. We will be setting up our GitHub account to allow contributions if thats better.
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by mtomweb 5y ago
We’re just web developers, not affiliated with or funded by any major company. In fact Google pays Apple 15b usd a year for search engine placement on iOS which is presumably why they haven’t been fighting it. It’s been a huge amount of un
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by mtomweb 5y ago
You’d have more takers over on Twitter
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by mtomweb 5y ago
This is the we can't have competition, because otherwise poorer quality products will win argument?
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by mtomweb 5y ago
So you obviously don’t build apps for iOS Safari and I can understand as a user why you might be under the misguided impression that it’s a good browser. As our primary target environment it is an uphill battle to get things to work in a wa
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by mtomweb 5y ago
You wouldn’t be calling Safari awe inspiring if you had to develop for it. It is hands down the worst browser, filled with application breaking bugs and supports the smallest number of features out of any browser. Arguably it’s a result of
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by mtomweb 5y ago
Explain the fingerprinting vector of Web-Bluetooth and how it compares with CoreBluetooth? No one else has been able too
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by mtomweb 5y ago
Anyone defending Safari has never had to write an app for it. It is so full of bugs I’d be amazed if someone didn’t run into problems with it. A core reason to reverse the AppleBrowserBan is so that it forces Apple to actually fund the Safa
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by mtomweb 5y ago
Although PWAs are not electron and can be built incredibly lightweight. Electron itself shouldn't be necessary if developers have the APIs they need.
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by mtomweb 5y ago
It's far worse than "Apple is slow at implementing". I've spent most of the last 10 years with Safari iOS as my primary target platform. I'll try to break down the major issues as unless you are intimately involved